Two populations of phenotypic males, twelve 47,XYY and twelve 47,XXY patients, when compared for behavior disability, sexual practices, and social interaction, revealed that the XYY males had behavior disability involving a predominance of impulsive acting out and poor long term planning. By contrast, the XXY males manifested a deficiency or inhibition of action. With regard to sexual practices, the XYY males reported a greater frequency and diversity of sexual experience and imagery than did the XXY males, who appear to be sexually inert by comparison. For both XYY and XXY men, being alone took preference over group participation. The XXY men were more characterized by inertia and reclusiveness, while the XYY men were mobile and more likely to intrude on other people and their property.
The syndrome of abuse dwarfism is characterized by gross impairment of statural and intellectual growth and social maturation while the abused child remains in the domicile of abuse. The parents collude as child abusers, and are medical impostors regarding the symptoms of abuse. The syndrome as a whole is appropriately named Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. Though the mother typically initiates abuse, she cannot give a rational explanation for doing so. In her own history there is a sin that is expiated or atoned for symbolically by the sacrifice of the child--explainable in terms of the theory of opponent-process learning. In the two cases presented, the sin was the mother's own birth out of wedlock, in one case as a sequel to incest. The child's addiction to abuse is a challenge to the program of rehabilitation. With respect to parents at risk, the data of this paper are relevant to the prevention of a predisposition toward, or the actual implementation of child abuse, though a program of prevention needs still to be formulated. The sexological relevance of this paper is that the data demonstrate that the effects of sexual abuse may be transmitted to the next generation and manifested as child abuse which is not necessarily sexual in content.
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