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Sexuality and educational levels of women with the late-treated adrenogenital syndrome

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Abstract

Eighteen Soviet female patients with the late-treated virilizing adrenogenital syndrome are described. In contrast to previous studies, homosexual experience and fantasies were not reported. In concordance with previous studies, there was the suggestion of enhanced intelligence as a function of increased levels of prenatal androgen.

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  1. Central Endocrine Laboratory of the Sick Fund and the Beilinson Hospital, Tel-Aviv and Petah-Tikva, Israel

    Arye Lev-Ran M.D., Ph.D.

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This study was based on patients treated in the Endocrine Department of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leningrad, USSR.

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Lev-Ran, A. Sexuality and educational levels of women with the late-treated adrenogenital syndrome. Arch Sex Behav 3, 27–32 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541040

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