Is Ttosterone Sabotagg Gay Relatnships?

Contents:

• DO GAY MEN HAVE LOWER TTOSTERONE?
• DIFFERENC DIG RATS BETWEEN GAY MEN WHO PREFER RECEPTIVE VERS SERTIVE SEX ROL DITE A ROLE FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN

DO GAY MEN HAVE LOWER TTOSTERONE?

Ttosterone therapy (TT) is a type of genr-affirmg hormone therapy (GAHT) lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and genrqueer (LGBTQ) populatns for genr dysphoria (GD), body uneass, and sexual dysfunctn. Bee some of the tras are known to be anized by prenatal steroids, cludg ttosterone, the differenc suggt that homosexual subjects were, on average, exposed to atypil endocre ndns durg velopment. Homosexual) is a behavral tra that displays one of the largt gre of sexual differentiatn, given that 90–97% of dividuals of one sex display an attractn that is different om that of the other mechanisms that terme human sexual orientatn have been the subject of heated ntroversi.

” It mt be noted, however, that tryg to unrstand the origs of homosexualy or heterosexualy sentially reprents the same the fluence of a variety of theori rangg om Frdian psychoanalysis to social nstctivism, sexual orientatn has been, and often still is, nsired as beg the rult of social experienc durg early childhood, particular improper teractn wh one's parents (domant or posssive mother, distant or absent father). Theoretil mol illtratg how fluctuatns around an average ncentratn of ttosterone (T) durg embryonic life uld lead to a homosexual or heterosexual average, male embryos are exposed to higher ncentratns of ttosterone than female embryos, but the ncentratns vary around a mean value for var reasons (environmental, geic, etc. Male subjects at the lower end of this sex-specific distributn uld th acquire a female-typil orientatn (and be gay), whereas femal at the high end of the ncentratn curve would acquire a male-typil sexual attractn and be lbian.

Even if they are not attracted by the same specific dividuals, femal and gay men share an attractn for men, whereas mal and lbians share an attractn for has been argued that such a theory is impossible, bee would imply that homosexual men have femized (or at least ls mascule) genal stctur whereas lbians should have experienced some masculizatn of genal stctur siar to what is observed for example CAH girls. Although tailed attentn has been given to this possibily, no data supportg this ia have been llected, and if anythg, penis of gay men are possibly larger than heterosexual men, suggtg that, ntrary to the theory s simplt form, they would have been hypermasculized (the data are, however, based on self measurements, and has been argued that homosexuals may have been exced more than heterosexuals by the view/manipulatn of their own penis, th biasg the measurements), however, that genal stctur and the bra (supportg behavr) prumably differentiate at different tim durg embryonic life (see Ref. Atypil Sexually Differentiated Characteristics Gays and LbiansPractil reasons make nearly impossible to terme the hormonal i to which an dividual was exposed durg his/her embryonic life.

DIFFERENC DIG RATS BETWEEN GAY MEN WHO PREFER RECEPTIVE VERS SERTIVE SEX ROL DITE A ROLE FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN

Many studi have quantified the featur paratively homosexual and heterosexual populatns to rearch whether homosexual subjects had been exposed to atypil hormonal ndns durg their velopment. Posive rults were obtaed a number of the sexually differentiated characteristics that have been studied this ntext clu variabl that uld be sendarily affected by homosexualy [e. The tras were shown to be signifintly different homosexual and heterosexual men and/or women, but we shall not review them here tail, bee they do not reprent nclive evince for exposure to an atypil endocre i durg embryonic life (see Refs.

We briefly discs three of the tras that are signifintly modified gays or rat of the lengths of the send (x) to the fourth (rg) fgers (2D:4D)The 2D:4D is signifintly smaller men than women. Intertgly, most studi have failed to tect a rrpondg femizatn of this feature gay men, and surprisgly, some studi have even reported a lower (hypermasculized) 2D:4D rat some gay men (39).

A modifitn of the length of long bon (arms and legs), a feature also supposed to be fluenced by early exposure to sex steroids, has been reported gay men (40) emissnsOne set of studi also vtigated the physlogy of the ner ear and more specifilly the small nois produced the chlea (prumably) by movements of the tympanic membrane, the so-lled oto-atic emissns (OAE). Intertgly, femizatn of the featur was never observed gay men, and some studi even reported hypermasculizatn of the stcturSeveral bra stctur have also been shown to be different between homosexual and heterosexual subjects, and this se, studi foced almost exclively on mal.