This fits with some old research that I was aware of regarding post WWII rise in homosexual male children born in England. It was a strange result that didn't seem to track to anything but "the womb environment" but it was sort of dismissed as a good study, but nobody had any way to really fit the facts into a cohesive theory. and it was just one study.
Apparently, people have been chasing down the phenomenon from other angles (birth order and prior male siblings).
Obviously this doesn't offer a complete theory of homosexuality, but it does point to at least one set of circumstances where the effect is really neither environment of rearing nor is it strictly genetic.
I've read a few things recently about how carrying male fetuses does cause changes in the woman's body chemistry that don't appear after carrying female fetuses.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I saw this on Yahoo the other day. It's pretty interesting...
But please, tell me why all the focus on gay men and never anything on lesbians?
(Some studies on bisexuals would be cool too since we're the redheaded step children of the gay community...)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Pixiest, most things I've seen suggest that there's more likely to be a biological "cause" for homosexuality in men than in women.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I don't doubt that there have been studies on lesbians and bisexuals.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Bob: You never hear about them, though. Maybe there are just as many just the media isn't as interested in it.
KQ: I doubt that. I think they're just not looking as hard for a biological cause in women.
Maybe it's becuase homosexuality in men carries more of a stigma so proving it's biological in men would do more good than proving it in women.
Or maybe the news media is reluctant to report on lesbians and bisexuals becuase to too many people it might seem like boarderline porn =/