Do a Short Inx Fger Make You Gay?

Contents:

• ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
• DO A SHORT INX FGER MAKE YOU GAY?
• DIFFERENC DIG RATS BETWEEN GAY MEN WHO PREFER RECEPTIVE VERS SERTIVE SEX ROL DITE A ROLE FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN

ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?

Meanwhile, among the male tws, the bisexual or gay brothers had more "male-typil" hands than the straight on—ntrary to what the rearchers expected—although the difference was not signifint. "Rearch suggts that our sexualy is termed the womb and is pennt on the amount of male hormone we are exposed to or the way our dividual bodi react to that hormone, wh those exposed to higher levels of ttosterone beg more likely to be bisexual or homosexual, " the thors wrote.

However, is important to strs, that the evince is currently not strong enough to accurately predict whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual by lookg at the rat between their fgers. "Some work has shown that gay men have more "male-typil" rats than straight men; other work has shown the oppose pattern; and still further work has shown no difference at all. As such, is not clear whether there is any real difference the level of ttosterone exposure between straight and gay men or how ttosterone exposure might map on to sexual orientatn differenc.

DO A SHORT INX FGER MAKE YOU GAY?

Some scientists believe prenatal sex hormon are also part of the puzzle of homosexualy and that a high level of ttosterone may wire the bra for attractn to the same sex. Intrigugly, rearch shows that a prenatal ttosterone level is most strongly lked to homosexualy women, acrdg to an article the Archiv of Sexual Behavr.

Some studi have shown hypermascule fger length gay men, while other studi show the oppose, a female-like fger pattern. Still, even if prenatal ttosterone is a factor homosexualy, 's unlikely to be the only element. "evince that homosexual women are exposed to more prenatal androgen than heterosexual women are; also, men wh more than one olr brother, who are more likely than first-born mal to be homosexual adulthood, are exposed to more prenatal androgen than elst sons.

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

They are not only claimg that the 2D:4D rat is predictive of homosexualy, but also that exposure to prenatal androgen is the root e of both fger lengths and sexual orientatn. Breedlove stated that "I have never said or thought that '2D:4D rat is predictive of homosexualy' or any other tra. As well as I n unrstand , he is claimg that "dig rats reflect prenatal androgen" but not that is predictive of homosexualy.

“If anythg, the gay tws had more ‘male-typil’ rats than their straight -tws, ” Watts said. "Others have poted out that such rearch is dangero: Would rult attempts to prevent children om beg born gay? This is bee of today’s news reports on a new study Nature by Berkeley psychology profsor Marc Breedlove that says gay people are likelier to have x fgers that are substantially shorter than their rg fgers.