| Mikey@likesit.com 2004-12-25, 2:06 am |
| Actually, the studies on a link to criminal activity were not on Klinefelter
males, but on males with the opposite condition, XYY rather than XXY.
Klinefelter men (XXY) as a whole are more docile than regular XY men,
whereas XYY men are as a group, but certainly not all individuals by any
means, more aggressive than regular men. I have not seen lab work in this,
but I would suspect that XYY men may naturally possess higher levels of
testosterone than men with XY chromosomes, and especially then XXY
Klinefelter men.
"dd" <xxyokc@yahoo.complicated> wrote in message
news:ah0ls0lfu4lapfulc4k2oq85d4474hjcfo@4ax.com...
> Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) is the most common genetic disorder,
> affecting approximately 1 in 500 live male births. Most men who have
> it apparently aren't aware as relatively few are diagnosed, many of
> them of them leading normal, average lives until they try to have
> children and discover the reason for their infertility.
>
> In the 1960s some highly biased studies were done with the goal of
> proving a connection betweenXXY and criminal activity. In one of the
> most infamous, researchers went to a prison mental hospital and tested
> inmates. They found a higher percentage of inmates with XXY than what
> they then supposed of the avergae population- a grand total of 16 men.
> From this they concluded that persons with XXY have criminalistic
> tendencies.
>
> Though these bogus studies have long since been discredited, their
> conclusions have been reproduced in virtually every medical, genetics,
> and socialogy textbook published ever since. Only within the last
> decade has this sorry state of affairs begun to change thanks to the
> efforts of doctors and activists affiliated with XXY national support
> organizations.
>
> There are a number of support resources on the net for XXY including
> at least a dozen active mailing lists, for parents, partners, and the
> XXY men themselves.
>
> For more information please visit:
>
> http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/stk151049.asp
> http://genetic.org
> http://aaksis.org
> http://47xxy.org
> http://klinefeltersyndrome.org
>
> Mailing lists:
>
> AAKSIS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
> thexxynetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
> xxylist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> http://genetic.org/ks/support/listservs/subscr_form.htm
>
> Any of you living with XXY partners, please forward this info to them.
>
> dd
> xxyokc@yahoo.complicated
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