Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, study suggts

Contents:

• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
• DID HAVG A BIG BROTHER MAKE ME GAY?
• BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

The bate about whether homosexual men are born or ma is hotly ntted. Purans still sist that homosexualy is a “liftyle choice” (and a wrong one at that). Many gay men will tell you they have been sexually attracted to other men sce they first noticed the difference between the sex.

But the ia that sexual orientatn is fixed before birth has been strengthened wh the trigug fdg that the more male babi a woman has borne, the greater the likelihood that any subsequent sons will be homosexual. Tw studi suggt that homosexualy isn’t all down to the …. Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study published Wednday the journal Proceedgs of the Royal Society B.

DID HAVG A BIG BROTHER MAKE ME GAY?

This new report builds upon prev rearch regardg male birth orr and homosexualy, though there is still no cisive ncln as to why there’s a lk between the cross-analyzg data om 10 scientific studi wh more than 5, 000 subjects, rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were 38 percent more likely to intify as gay. ”The study, which pared the probabily of the youngt brother a two-son fay beg gay as pared to the olst son, did not clu female subjects, as prev rearch has tablished that women do not fluence the sexual orientatn of their younger siblgs, acrdg to this study did not terme a ncrete reason for the rrelatn between a man havg an olr brother and intifyg as gay, Blanchard said that “pots toward the need for more rearch on the 'maternal immune hypothis'” — a theory Blanchard troduced 1996 that suggts that a mother is exposed to “male-specific substanc” durg pregnancy wh or the birth of a son.

BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

Acrdg to proponents of the theory, the mother’s immune rponse is changed durg the pregnancy of a boy, creasg the likelihood that a subsequent male child would be gay.

A much-published, recently retired Universy of Toronto amic, he is currently lookg to why younger brothers are more likely to be gay than their olr brothers. And he thks he and a equent llaborator might have intified a blogil e, somethg that happens the mother's womb as opposed to beg rooted upbrgg – nature, not has some gay activists wrgg their hands: What if we disver the blogil origs of homosexualy and, based on that science, a cure to gayns n be found?

If many of the first wave of gay activists wanted scientists to show that the ndn was nate, nearly immutable, the latt generatn worri that if we fd the , the cur n't be too far so, if, as Blanchard poss, the alleged anti-male antibodi n be intified, they might also, some distant future, be ntralized, rcg the number of births of gay-tendg boy scientific evince that maybe the babi were, ed, born this way, has been growg. Assorted studi have found that lbians on average have longer fgers, that the left-hand are more likely to be gay and lbian, that gay men are, on average, shorter than their straight peers – all tends to support the ia that homosexualy is bred the far as the greater cince of homosexualy among younger brothers, Blanchard and fellow psychologist Tony Bogaert, a profsor at Brock Universy, believe they've elimated social . Havg an olr but not blogilly related stepbrother the hoe seems to have no effect on the odds that the boy will bee a Friend of Dorothy; also, those who have an olr blogil brother who grows up another hoehold, well, they tend to turn out gay more often.