obsolete medical term homosexual panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_panic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2253484 A term coined by psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920 for a condition of "panic due to the pressure of uncontrollable perverse sexual cravings". Kempf classified this condition as an acute pernicious dissociative disorder, meaning that it involved a disruption in typical perception and memory functions of an individual. In the psychiatrist's honour, the condition has come to also be known as "Kempf's disease". It is no longer recognized by the DSM. Kempf's disease