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Clinical assessment of 19 male adolescent sexual offenders who had committed exhibitionism or telephone scatologia showed that the majority were maladjusted, had committed numerous sexual offenses and came from multi-problem families. Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia. Anti-social traits, sexual deviance in the family, homosexual conflicts, repressed sexuality and sexual deviance were considered to be contributory factors.
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George A.Awad was Director, Family Court Clinic, The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
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Saunders, E.B., Awad, G.A. Male adolescent sexual offenders: Exhibitionism and obscene phone calls. Child Psych Hum Dev 21, 169–178 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705902
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