| Title |
A test of the maternal stress theory of human male homosexuality
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Archives of Sexual Behavior, June 1991
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| DOI | 10.1007/bf01541847 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
J. Michael Bailey, Lee Willerman, Carlton Parks |
| Abstract |
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 heterosexual sibling of the subject. For males, neither between-family nor within-family analyses revealed a maternal stress effect for either sexual orientation or childhood gender nonconformity. However, mothers of effeminate children reported more stress-proneness than other mothers. Male homosexuality nevertheless was strongly familial, suggesting a reconsideration of genetic and familial environmental mechanisms. |
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| Cuba | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |
| Andorra | 1 | 8% |
| Colombia | 1 | 8% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 54% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 13 | 100% |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Montenegro | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 17% |
| Unknown | 11 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 18 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 17% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 13 | 21% |
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