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This paper was presented as a Plenary address at the 33rd Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 2, 1990. Reprint requests can be sent to the author at the Department of Urology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 10467.

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