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A Case of Ophidiophilia: A Clinical Contribution to Snake Symbolism, and a Supplement to 'Psychoanalytic Study of Ulcerative Colitis in Children'. Melitta Sperling. Pp. 227-233.
Comment on Dr. M. Sperling's and Dr. Stoller's Papers. Herman M. Serota. Pp. 234-236.
Besides the contributions of external genitalia and infant-parent relationships to gender identity there is a third factor, a usually silent, congenital, perhaps inherited biological force toward maleness or femaleness. Stoller presents two cases to show this force with special clarity. One, a neurotic child, was brought up under the assumption he was a girl until an examination at age fourteen revealed he was chromosomally a normal male with fully erectile penis of clitoral size, hypospadias, bilateral cryptorchidism, bifid scrotum, and normal prostate. Upon learning this, the boy changed to boy's dress, his neurosis disappeared, and he was still living a normal boy's life with his family and peers in a different community two years after the examination was made. The second, a case of male external genitalia but female, secondary sex characteristics after puberty,