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Sexual Aggressivity and Androgens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Raboch ,
H. Černá  and
P. Zemek
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Abstract

Male sex hormones are ascribed a great importance in the literature from the point of view of sexual activity and aggressive behaviour. Two cases of sexually motivated murder are described, committed by delinquents with low levels of testosterone in plasma: one a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome; the other a man after castration. Even a decreased level of androgens, either primary or secondary, is not an absolute prevention of sexually aggressive behaviour.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 398 - 400
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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