Tw pairs which at least one tw is homosexual were soliced through announcements the gay prs and personal referrals om 1980 to the prent. An 18-page qutnnaire on the "sexualy of tws" was filled out by one or both tws. Thirty-eight pairs of monozygotic tws (34 male pairs …
Contents:
- YOUR GOOD HEALTH: WHY IS ONE ‘INTIL’ TW GAY, THE OTHER STRAIGHT?
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS
YOUR GOOD HEALTH: WHY IS ONE ‘INTIL’ TW GAY, THE OTHER STRAIGHT?
In fact, scientists recently intified two specific gen that appear to differ between gay and straight men [1]. For example, one may be straight while the other is gay. In s like this, some might argue that perhaps both tws are actually gay, but one jt hasn’t e out yet.
In a study where scientists looked at the sexual aroal patterns of intil tws wh different sexuali—specifilly, where one was gay and the other was straight—they found that gay tws monstrated more genal aroal rponse to same-sex imag, whereas straight tws monstrated more aroal rponse to oppose-sex imag [2]. In theory, this means two people uld rry “gay gen, ” but both of them wouldn’t necsarily be gay pendg on certa environmental factors.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS
012% of the populatn nsists of a gay or bisexual person who happens to have an intil tw [2].