Abstract
General characteristics of 270 sexual psychopaths, studied at the 36th Station Hospital (NP) are presented on a statistical. basis. Outstanding features: a. The problem of sexual psychopathy in the military service is essentially that of homosexuality. Cases of other forms of sexual psychopathy are numerically infrequent. b. Feigning homosexual traits in order to avoid military obligations is not a serious problem in this theater. Careful study of 100 soldiers who applied for hospitalization revealed that paractically all were true homosexuals. c. There has been lack of uniformity in medico-legal handling of these cases. There is considerable variation in attempting to decide which cases to try by court-martial, the severity of the sentences and the handling of clemency. In general, cases with single offenses, in men of good repute and honorable service, are more often prosecuted and receive more severe sentences than chronic offenders. Since the publication of War Department Circular No. 3, 3 January 194...
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