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Reply to the “Official Statement by the German Society for Sex Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung e. V.) on the Research of Prof. Dr. Günter Dörner on the Subject of Homosexuality,” published by V. Sigusch, E. Schorsch, M. Dannecker, and G. Schmidt in Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 5, 1982, pp. 445–450.

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  1. Humboldt University Medical School (Charité), Schumannstr. 20-21, 1040, Berlin, German Democratic Republic

    Günter Dörner M.D. (Head of the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology)

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Dörner, G. Letter to the editor. Arch Sex Behav 12, 577–582 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542218

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