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This article deals with sexual behaviour with children, proposing a tighter clinical definition, based on a phenomenological nosology. This nosology classifies the behavioural symptoms by the object, the act, and the agent. 1. The Object: the child must be prepubertal and the sex of the child denotes either hetero- or homosexual pedophilia. 2. The Act: Consists of either: a) Immature gratification b) Deviant acts c) Genital union Only a) is included under the term pedophilia. 3. The Agent: pedophiles fall into three distinct age groupings, culminating in adolescence, mid to late thirties and mid to late fifties. An account of heterosexual pedophilia, homosexual pedophilia, and the situation of the victim is given, and the clinical, social and legal implications are discussed.

A Gender Identity Project was established to study people who present with the chief complaint of transsexualism. A multidisciplinary approach was chosen and patients were investigated from the genetic, neuroendocrinological, psychological, and social aspects. The organization of the project and the protocol for evaluation of the patients are outlined. The investigators hope that almost all cases seen for evaluation, including those who dropped out and those who have been rejected in the process, will be seen for follow-up and that this will provide some indication of how to help these people. The findings of the study, together with reports on the studies which arose as extensions of the original investigation, will be reported in subsequent publications.

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