Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study om Universy of Toronto rearchers. The reason may be the maternal immune hypothis.
Contents:
- MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
- HAVG OLR BROTHERS CREAS MEN’S LIKELIHOOD OF BEG GAY
- IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)
- ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
- FEATURED STORI
MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
* gay older brother *
Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study published Wednday the journal Proceedgs of the Royal Society B. 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.
HAVG OLR BROTHERS CREAS MEN’S LIKELIHOOD OF BEG GAY
I don't mean your actual brother, I mean your bt iend. If somethg is odd about your bro, like him actg spic around other boys - or somethg else that jt seems odd - take this quiz to fd out if he might be gay. * gay older brother *
”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.
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.
IS MY BROTHER GAY? QUIZ (BOYS ONLY)
Except after I sucked him, he gave me a lecture about how he would not reciprote bee was homosexual. Six months later after my mother first had him re for me, my mother explaed to me her iend was a latent homosexual. Earlier studi have noticed that gay men often have olr brothers.
If you’re a guy wh an olr brother, there’s an creased chance you’re gay.
ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
The rearchers say that if their fdgs n be replited, we may know at least one of the blogil reasons some men are gay.
FEATURED STORI
A 2006 study showed that wh each brother, the chance that a man will be gay go up by about a third, but the rearchers didn’t terme why that was. They found the hight ncentratn of antibodi to the prote women wh gay younger sons who had olr brothers, pared wh women who had no sons or who had given birth to only heterosexual boys. One found that a man’s chanc of beg gay creased even if he was raised apart om his olr brother.
The rearch do not give a blogil explanatn for why some men may be bisexual or may not be attracted to anyone at all, nor n give a blogil explanatn for gay only children, gay olst sons or women who are attracted to women.
Bailey’s latt paper, published this month the journal Nature Rearch, looked at people’s genom and found several regns wh sgle-letter DNA chang that were more mon among gay men than straight men and may be relevant to the velopment of sexual orientatn. If somethg is odd about your bro, like him actg spic around other boys - or somethg else that jt seems odd - take this quiz to fd out if he might be gay.