Permixon is a drug made up of fatty acids, extracted from the fruits of palm trees. According to its manufacturers, it has been found to have an anti-androgenic effect—that is, to block the effects of male hormones like testosterone—in rats and mice. These results, however, have not been confirmed by others. Comparisons of this drug [...]
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You will be anesthetized; this can happen several ways. Most likely, you’ll have either spinal or epidural anesthesia. With both forms, you remain conscious and aware of the procedure, even though you can’t feel it. In spinal anesthesia, you’ll receive a shot of local anesthetic in the small of your back through the dura, the [...]
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In normal ejaculation, several events must take place. Sperm, which are made in the testicles, travel to the epididymis, a “greenhouse,” in which they mature. During orgasm, sperm are rocketed from the epididymis through the vas deferens during a series of powerful muscle contractions. They shoot through the ejaculatory ducts and mix with fluid produced [...]
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Finally, many men who have been castrated report that they don’t feel “normal”; they may also feel irritable and less aggressive. Weight gain, loss of muscle mass and subtle changes in physical appearance—differences in skin tone and hair growth—also are common. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no change in the pitch of the [...]
Many studies of radiation and prostate cancer have been published in the medical literature, and they’re not standardized—their definitions of success vary. In measuring local control of prostate cancer, for example, some studies base their results on a normal digital rectal examination, or a normal PSA score, or a negative prostate biopsy at eighteen to [...]
By far the commonest variety of offender, comprising slightly over half of all our cases, is the pedophile. We include under this term not only males who prefer children, but also those who, while preferring older persons, nevertheless find children sexually desirable. The great majority of pedophiles were attracted only by male children, but a [...]
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There is nothing significant in the proportion of incest offenders vs. minors who ever masturbated, or in the age-specific incidence figures among the single males. A relatively large proportion of the married, however—roughly half to two fifths—continued to masturbate throughout the years from thirty-one to forty.
Like the other incest offenders, very few (3 per cent) [...]
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Of all the heterosexual aggressors, the aggressors vs. minors had the most homosexual contact after puberty with other males, and they also derived the most arousal from thinking of or seeing other males. In both respects they rank second only to the homosexual offenders. Moreover, 15 per cent reported that the arousal was strong—and 15 [...]
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Like the offenders vs. children, the heterosexual offenders vs. minors display no salient characteristics in their homosexual experience. Nearly 40 per cent had had physical sexual contact with another male since puberty, six percentage points more than the figure reported by the control group. Thirty-six per cent had such experience outside of prison—a somewhat small [...]
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Since the essence of this study is comparison, virtually all our final statistics were at some stage in the analysis rank-ordered—that is, arranged in order in some scale of comparison. The value of a rank-order depends, of course, upon the range of variation; the smaller the range, the less useful is the rank-order. For example, [...]