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Cross-dressing in Men with Learning Disabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Clare Bowler  and
Richard A. Collacott
Clare Bowler
Affiliation:
Mental Illness Unit, General Hospital, Leicester
Richard A. Collacott*
Affiliation:
Frith Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QF
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Four men with learning disabilities were considered to show transvestic fetishism, and a fifth to show transvestism. However, developmental retardation and personality problems may modify the concepts behind such categorisation.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 556 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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