Boyhood

By its title, Sex and Gender announced a conceptual breakthrough in distinguishing basic elements of human experience. In Robert Stoller's first book, patients illustrating this divergence were lucidly presented. Transvestites and the newly publicized transsexuals were two examples. Clinical and dynamic distinctions between the two formed a basis for Stoller's criteria for patient selection for "sex change." They remain current. The complex identity of the intersexed was described with sensitivity and insight...

Male circumcision is practiced in South Africa among the Xhosa people as a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. The manhood status achieved after the ritual accords men power and authority in the community over women and uncircumcised men. Therefore, uninitiated men experience great pressures to get circumcised. We describe the experience of newly initiated Xhosa men in East London, South Africa. Interpretive phenomenology was used as the inquiry of choice. Data were collected through focus group discussions in which 14 men participated...

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David de Wied was a natural leader with many a talent. He was the director of the Rudolf Magnus Institute at Utrecht University and president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He coached over 75 Ph.D. students and hosted some 200 foreign scientists who joined him in his multidisciplinary neuropeptide research. Many of them became lifelong friends, frequenting the home of Liedje and David de Wied. Born in Deventer (The Netherlands) on January 12th, 1925, David de Wied's early boyhood first in Deventer and later in Leeuwarden appears to have been no different from that of any other provincial Dutch boys in pre-war Holland...

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Drawing on interview data from rural Nigeria, the article explores male youth perceptions of the risks and benefits of multiple sexual partnerships. Participants associated having multiple sexual partners with several harmful health and nonhealth outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, and frequently confirmed that the practice also bolsters their sense of maleness and boosts their acceptance and ranking among peers. Young males' involvement in multiple sexual partnerships should not be seen as always consequent on their ignorance of and/or indifference to the risks inherent in the behavior...

HISTORY AND CLINICAL FINDINGS: A 58-year-old man was admitted because of septic fever for about one week with onset two weeks after an hemorrhoidectomy. He had been receiving methotrexate (MTX) since boyhood for severe psoriasis. Fifteen years before he had undergone a splenectomy after abdominal trauma. The patient was found to have diminished cognitive functions and memory disturbance, but no focal neurological deficits. INVESTIGATIONS: Laboratory tests were negative for inflammatory disease (normal white blood cell count, CRP and procalcitonin) and serial blood cultures remained sterile...

The phenomenon of castration is wedded to the baroque era. This epoch stands for pure sensual pleasure. Those who could afford it tried to arrange their earthly days to be as enjoyable as possible. A perverse bloom of this ambition was the angel-like voices of the castrati. The supernatural sound of the voice was meant to let the opera visitors escape into another world. High society was almost addicted to those voices. On the other hand nobody showed any interest in the spiritual life of the castrati. Farinelli, Nicolini, and Senesino, three of the most famous castrati, were the first musical superstars of the eighteenth century...

I recently purchased the pharmacy container (illustrated) from an antique dealer friend who had kept three of these tins for 20 years intending to convert them into lamp bases. Fortunately I persuaded him to sell them to me rather than being hacked up. The other two are labeled 'BETT. RT PUL' 'LUNGWORT'. (All three are similarly painted, lidded tins and all stand 13 inches high, with a diameter of seven inches.) The label 'MANDRAKERT' immediately conjured up two impressions, firstly my boyhood reading of Mandrake the magician comics, and secondly a strong interest to research the story behind this 19th century tin's mystical contents...

Employing a prospective paradigm, this investigation derived the childhood phenotype and the environtype associated with risk for cannabis use disorder. Two hundred and sixteen boys were evaluated between age 10-12 on a comprehensive protocol using self, mother, and teacher reports and followed-up at ages 19 and 22 to determine the presence of cannabis use disorder. The Transmissible Liability Index (TLI) and Non-Transmissible Liability Index (NTLI) were derived using item response theory. Logistic regression was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of the indexes, singly and in combination, to predict cannabis use disorder...

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Alfonso Corti was born at Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822. A famous friend of Corti's father, Antonio Scarpa, may have kindled his boyhood interest in anatomy and medicine. As a medical student he enrolled first at the University of Pavia. Corti's favorite study there was microanatomy with Bartolomeo Panizza and Mario Rusconi. In 1845, against paternal wishes, Corti moved to Vienna to complete his medical studies and to work in the anatomical institute of Joseph Hirtl. There he received the degree in medicine in 1847 under the supervision of professor Hyrtl, with a thesis on the bloodstream system of a reptile...

There is substantial evidence that low birth weight is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease in adult life. Moreover, resting heart rate is a prognostic factor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, there are scarce data regarding the association between birth weight and resting heart rate in later life. Therefore, we investigated the association of anthropometric data at birth and hemodynamic indices including resting heart rate in Japanese boys. The data of 1,107 male students of a junior high school in Tokyo, Japan, who underwent a medical check-up in the year of admission to the school (12 or 13 years old) were used...

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BACKGROUND: Traditional male circumcision is still widely practised in the Xhosa population throughout South Africa. It is a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. Unfortunately, botched circumcisions are a public health hazard and lead to tragic mutilations and deaths. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: The present study was undertaken to assess the extent of circumcision-related complications and fatalities in the Eastern Cape. Health care data were provided by the Eastern Cape Department of Health...

G. Stanley Hall was an advocate of sex-segregated schooling long after most Americans had accepted coeducation. His position was based in part on personal experience: observations of his father and mother, a repressed and guilt-ridden boyhood sexuality, and his conviction that his own career success was a product of sublimated sexual desire, of erotic energy converted into mental energy. Hall theorized that coeducation put sublimation at risk, and that sex-segregated schools, by contributing to proper gendered development and by prolonging and sublimating the sexual tensions of adolescence, would produce social progress...

As Alpha Omegans, we are united not only by our profession but also by a mission to educate ourselves, and others, about preserving our Jewish heritage. It was with this mission in mind that the Alpha Omegan invited me to share with my fraters a very personal, and painful, account of my boyhood in Poland, where I survived the Holocaust. Among the many gruesome episodes I encountered during the war, two remain vivid in my memories. Although this is not an easy story for me to tell, it is one that ultimately gives me great strength, especially as I prepare to disclose it among my dear friends and colleagues of Alpha Omega...

Based on the assumption that sexual minority individuals are particularly sensitive to the possible rejection of others, the present study examined the occurrence and correlates of social anxiety symptomatology in gay and heterosexual men. Eighty-seven heterosexual and 87 gay undergraduate men between the ages of 18 and 24 completed common measures of social anxiety, self-esteem, boyhood gender conformity, and a modified S-R Inventory of Anxiousness. Results reveal that gay men reported greater fear of negative evaluation and social interaction anxiety and lower self-esteem than heterosexual men...

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrabeculation (LVHT)/non-compaction, a rare myocardial abnormality and frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders, has not been reported in primary myoadenylate-deaminase (MAD) deficiency (MADD). CASE REPORT: In a 53-year-old man with easy fatigability and myalgia since boyhood, primary MADD was diagnosed based upon slightly, but recurrently elevated creatine-kinase, absent staining for MAD on muscle biopsy, markedly reduced MAD activity in the muscle homogenate, and the C34T mutation within exon 2 of the AMPD1 gene...