Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:748-752
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Sexual practices among patients with borderline personality disorder
GS Zubenko, AW George, PH Soloff and P Schulz
The authors found that 12 (57%) of 21 consecutive male patients with
borderline personality disorder who presented for psychiatric treatment at
two distant geographic sites were homosexual. They then obtained the sexual
histories of 80 patients who met standardized criteria for borderline
disorder and found that 17 (21%) of these patients were homosexual, four
(5%) were bisexual, and nine (11%) had diagnoses of paraphilias. Ten (53%)
of the 19 men with borderline disorder were homosexual, compared with seven
(11%) of the 61 women. Homosexuality was 10 times more common among the men
and six times more common among the women with borderline personality
disorder than in the general population or in a depressed control group.
