Word: perloff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. William H. Perloff of Philadelphia vigorously debunks the supposed importance of hormones in determining sexual appetites. Although most widely used in treating impotence and frigidity, hormones are useful, says he, only in the rare cases where these disorders are plainly caused by a hormone imbalance. Both homosexuality and milder cases where patients show mannerisms of the opposite sex are entirely psychological in origin, says Perloff. For these, hormone treatments are useless...