Is Effemacy Gay Men a Functn of Nature or Nurture? | HuffPost Life

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• WHY EFFEMATE GAYS ARE FABULO
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• IS EFFEMACY GAY MEN A FUNCTN OF NATURE OR NURTURE?

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived young boys who persistently act like girls grow up to be homosexuals or bisexuals, a 15-year study of ''sissy boys'' has shown.

WHY EFFEMATE GAYS ARE FABULO

Acrdg to the fdgs, neher therapy signed to disurage the extremely feme behavr nor ial child rearg uld guarantee that the boys would velop as heterosexuals, although parental disuragement of the boys' girlish behavr tend to rult a more heterosexual of 44 extremely feme boys followed om early childhood to adolcence or young adulthood matured as homosexuals or bisexuals, as agast only one bisexual among a parison group of more typilly mascule many s parents eher overtly or subtly enuraged the feme behavr. But when parents actively disuraged and took other steps to enhance a male self-ncept, homosexual tennci of the feme boys were lsened, although not necsarily reversed.

Neher did profsnal unselg divert a tenncy toward homosexualy, although rulted more nventnal mascule behavr and enhanced the boys' social and pyschologil adjtment and fort wh beg study was nducted by Dr.

Green's new book, ''The 'Sissy Boy Syndrome' and the Development of Homosexualy, '' to be published Febary by Yale Universy Prs. Green study did not exame the velopment of homosexualy boys whose childhoods are typilly mascule. About one-third of homosexual men rell such mascule boyhoods.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Nor do the study suggt that all boys wh the sissy-boy syndrome are sted for homosexualy. Green and other experts faiar wh his study, the fdgs dite that some children may have an born ''receptivy'' to environmental factors that enurage a homosexual orientatn.

Recent rearch animals suggts that prenatal hormonal fluenc n terfere wh programmg the bra of the male fet and rult the birth of mal that act like study supports a recent Ksey Instute survey of 1, 500 adults that sgled out ''genr nonnformy'' childhood as the most important predictor of homosexualy. Richard Isay, a New York psychoanalyst whose practice is largely homosexual men, said: ''I would agree wh Dr. I too see no support for the notn that bdg mothers produce homosexual sons, nor do I see any nsistent pattern for absent fathers that I don't also see among heterosexual men analysis.

Isay, who is affiliated wh Columbia Psychoanalytic Instute and New York-Cornell Medil School, suggted that the mon pictn among homosexual men of an absent, distant father is fact a fense agast an unrlyg erotic attachment to their Green, who is now studyg the velopment of tomboy girls, said the issue for girls who act like boys is very different.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

''There are far fewer sissy boys than tomboy girls, but many more homosexual and transsexual men than women, '' he to ment on Dr. Judd Marmor, profsor emer of psychiatry at the Universy of Southern California and the Universy of California at Los Angel, said that they ''are another ditn there is a blogil element volved the genis of homosexualy, at least for those homosexuals wh effemate quali.

‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL

Marmor, who is a past print of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and an thory on homosexualy, lled the rearch ''most important'' what revealed about the velopment of sexual orientatn. ''Society tends to treat male homosexuals as if they had a choice about their sexual orientatn, when fact they have no more choice about how they velop than heterosexuals do, '' he said. 'Not Answer to All Homosexualy'An nate sisss is ''not the answer to all homosexualy, '' Dr.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Marmor said, ''but is a factor that plays a role a substantial number of male homosexuals.

'' He add that homosexualy uld also velop om a serly distorted fay environment but that '' is much harr to velop that way, whout a blogil predisposn. Green found no evince that the parents ''created'' feme boys (many, fact, had other sons who were normally mascule), certa parental attus and actns were rrelated wh a stronger homosexual orientatn. ''One of the most important factors related to a more homosexual orientatn adolcence and adulthood was how parents rpond to the boys when they drsed up as girls and pretend to be girls.

IS EFFEMACY GAY MEN A FUNCTN OF NATURE OR NURTURE?

For example, photographs of the boys drsed as girls were found many fay albums of feme boys but none of the albums of the parison group of mascule relatnship was found between later homosexualy and the amount of time a boy spent wh his mother. '' He suggted that parents need not feel guilty if their effemate sons turn out to be homosexual. Frerick Wham, soclogist at Arizona State Universy Tempe, who found that homosexuals the cultur were more likely to remember cross-genr behavr childhood than were heterosexuals.