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Sexual Orientation - Psychology Podcast and Blog性取向的心理学的播客与博客

Sexual Orientation Summary of Current Research Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. Fall, 2009 The Psych Files podcast Background Info Demographics: 3% of males and 2% of females = 5% of US population self identify as gay (assuming the US population is 260 million, equally split between males and females, this amounts to approx 13 million) Sexual Behavior vs. Sexual Orientation An important distinction People can engage in homosexual behavior (ex: experimentation in adolescence, homosexual behavior in prison), but not have a homosexual orientation - Don Allen Sexual orientation is considered by many researchers to be on a continuum On one end: those who are exclusively heterosexual and on the other, those who consider themselves to be exclusively homosexual with all degrees in between Homosexuality among animals Necking and rubbing to sexual excitement is common among male giraffes Common among pygmy chimpanzees Greylag geese can have homosexual unions that last up to 15 years Physiological differences between gays and straights Simon LeVay (1991) Neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla California The third interstitial nucleus (located in the hypothalamus) is normally larger in men than in women in his sample of gay men, the third interstitial nucleus was about the same size as in women Hypothalamus plays a role in sexual motivation Published in the Journal Science Critics: it cant be as black/white as this because of the idea of a continuum Physiological differences between gays and straights Handedness Lesbians are 91% more likely to be left handed than heterosexual women Gay men are 34% more likely Hormones index (pointer) and ring finger Women: the length is more similar than in men (men: bigger difference in the length of these two fingers) caused by exposure to male hormones in utero you can see this difference at age 2 Lesbians: the difference is more similar to men suggests that lesbians may have had a greater exposure to male hormones in the womb Hormones