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Human Sexual Orientation The Biologic
\s=b\ Recent studies postulate biologic factors as the primary basis for sexual orientation. However, there is no evidence at present to substantiate a biologic theory, just as there is no compelling evidence to support any singular psychoso-cial explanation. While all behavior must have an ultimate biologic substrate, the appeal of current biologic explanations for sexual orientation may deriv...
متن کاملThe neurodevelopment of human sexual orientation.
One of the most enduring and controversial questions in the neuroscience of sexual behaviour surrounds the mechanisms which produce sexual attraction to either males or females. Here, evidence is reviewed which supports the proposal that sexual orientation in humans may be laid down in neural circuitry during early foetal development. Behaviour genetic investigations provide strong evidence for...
متن کاملMinireview: Hormones and human sexual orientation.
Many people believe that sexual orientation (homosexuality vs. heterosexuality) is determined by education and social constraints. There are, however, a large number of studies indicating that prenatal factors have an important influence on this critical feature of human sexuality. Sexual orientation is a sexually differentiated trait (over 90% of men are attracted to women and vice versa). In ...
متن کاملSpatial ability, handedness, and human sexual orientation.
We investigated the relations among mental rotations and spatial perception abilities, handedness, and sexual orientation in both men and women. The present study included a relatively large sample and attempted to control statistically for important covariates such as general intelligence. Significant sex differences were obtained for mental rotations and spatial perception, but not for handed...
متن کاملSexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation.
During the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed into our brain structures when we are still in t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Theology & Sexuality
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1355-8358,1745-5170
DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1818541