Article
A test of the maternal stress theory of human male homosexuality.
Archives of sexual behavior - 1 Jun 1991
Bailey J M, Willerman L, Parks C
Abstract excerpt
Both the neurohormonal theory of sexual orientation and previous research on humans and animals suggest that male homosexuality may arise from prenatal stress during the brain's sexual differentiation. Stress-proneness and retrospective reports of stress during pregnancy were obtained from mothers of male and female heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals. Each mother also rated pregnancy stress for a...
Topics
- Female
- Gender Identity
- Genetic Variation
- Homosexuality
- Humans
- Imagination
- Life Change Events
- Male
- Mothers
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications
- Sibling Relations