Contents:
- ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
- TWS WERE BORN TO A GAY COUPLE. ONLY ONE CHILD WAS REGNIZED AS A U.S. CIZEN, UNTIL NOW.
- HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers.
TWS WERE BORN TO A GAY COUPLE. ONLY ONE CHILD WAS REGNIZED AS A U.S. CIZEN, UNTIL NOW.
"In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study. "To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia).
The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java. Consistent wh Blanchard and Bogaert's fdgs Wtern societi, they found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr brothers than heterosexual men. To be specific, homosexual men their sample had an average of 0.
HOW TO ADDRS A MARRIED GAY COUPLE WH THE SAME LAST NAME
Intertgly, the rearchers also found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr sisters, although this difference was smaller than the olr brother difference. The rearchers then tted whether homosexualy was visible the facial featur of Indonians. Usg standardized photographs of heterosexual and homosexual Indonian men, the rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were perceived to have more feme facial featur than men whout olr brothers.