Are Younger Brothers More Likely to Be Gay? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS
• WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• GAYBROTHER STORI
• KELV MAK A BIG PLAY HIS LOVE LIFE 'THE RIGHTEO GEMSTON' — IS HE GAY?

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

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Gay people should be more tolerant of someone who prefers not to reveal his sexualy. In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers. "In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study.

BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS

"To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia). The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java.

WE MAY KNOW WHY YOUNGER BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

Consistent wh Blanchard and Bogaert's fdgs Wtern societi, they found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr brothers than heterosexual men. To be specific, homosexual men their sample had an average of 0. Intertgly, the rearchers also found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr sisters, although this difference was smaller than the olr brother difference.

GAYBROTHER STORI

The rearchers then tted whether homosexualy was visible the facial featur of Indonians.

Usg standardized photographs of heterosexual and homosexual Indonian men, the rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were perceived to have more feme facial featur than men whout olr brothers. They did not, however, fd that homosexual men were any more femized their facial featur than heterosexual men. The thors wre, "Taken together, the rults suggt the prence of a femizg factor associated wh male homosexualy that is partially termed by male birth orr.

KELV MAK A BIG PLAY HIS LOVE LIFE 'THE RIGHTEO GEMSTON' — IS HE GAY?

Homosexualy has been a long-standg pot of nfn for evolutnary psychologists.