Homosexualidad en el adolescente

Abstract

The authors review the clinical records of 16 youngsters, who have antecedents of homosexual behavior. The clinical records were taken from a Psychiatric Health Service. The stud y is based on the characteristics of the psychosexual identity development, as well as on the characteristics of sex behavior and couple relationships. Taking the dates obtained by the authors and the references found in the foreign bibliography, the characteristics of both male and female homosexually are separately commented. Most of the youngsters showed perturbations in sex classification and they adopt an ego-syntotic homosexual identity. Precocity is pointed out as an outstanding fact regarding attraction, initiation and frequency of homosexual sex contact.