Studies on mate preferences usually examine heterosexual attraction; comparatively little is known about preferences of individuals whose sexuality is aimed at the same sex. This study examined preferences of two groups of androphilic individuals homosexual men and heterosexual women for male facial and vocal level of masculinity. Facial images of 61 men and vocal recordings of 30 men were rate...

Seminal fluid samples from 84 Danish homosexual men were successfully cultured to determine the prevalence of cytomegalovirus excretion. Ten (15%) out of 66 men positive for the antibody were found to be excreting the virus. Although the proportion excreting was inversely related to age (p less than 0.01), three men aged over 30 and with many years of homosexual experience excreted the virus. I...

This study tested the balancing selection hypothesis, that is, genes predisposing men to homosexuality escape elimination from the population because the decreased fertility of men with the heritable form of homosexuality is offset by an increased fertility among biological relatives who carry the same genetic variants. The index subjects (probands) were 40,197 firstborn heterosexual men and 4,...

Although the number of cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the United Kingdom is still low at 51 (June 1984), there has been considerable media and public interest. Gonorrhoea is one of the most common diseases acquired by homosexual men. It has a short incubation period, and in the absence of routinely collected data on changes in sexual behaviour it serves as a reasonable surr...

Courts determine custody and visitation on the basis of the "best interests of the child." Current judicial rulings in some jurisdictions reflect a bias against awarding custody or granting visitation rights to homosexual parents, favoring the heterosexual parent or heterosexual relative of the child(ren). Should the sexual orientation of the parent play a part in the determination of custody o...

OBJECTIVE The neurobiological mechanisms of deviant sexual preferences such as pedophilia are largely unknown. The objective of this study was to analyze whether brain activation patterns of homosexual pedophiles differed from those of a nonpedophile homosexual control group during visual sexual stimulation. METHOD A consecutive sample of 11 pedophile forensic inpatients exclusively attracted...

One hundred and twenty one participants reported sexual orientation, body mass index, body shape concerns, eating motives and eating styles. Measures of body dissatisfaction were greater in heterosexual women and homosexual men (ps <.05), while heterosexual women had smaller (ps <.001) ideal body shapes. Eating weight control motive was lower in heterosexual men compared to women (ps <.05). Res...

Research on the interpersonal relationships of lesbians and gay men represents a relatively new direction in the study of homosexuality. Only during the past decade have studies of close homosexual relationships emerged as a recognizable scientific perspective on homosexuality (see reviews by Blumstein & Schwartz, 1983; Harry, 1983; Larson, 1982; McWhirter & Mattison, 1984; Peplau, 1982; Peplau...

This paper explores the research regarding the effects of homosexual versus heterosexual parenting on children. Over the past two decades, researchers have begun examining the differences between the development of children with same-sex parents and children with heterosexual parents. These differences have been studied in terms of children’s cognitive development, gender role behavior, gender ...

This study was performed to clarify the sexual orientation in a 19-year-old homosexual male and a 20-year-old homosexual female by using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with viewing male and female erotic nude pictures. The sex hormone levels of the homosexual male and female were in the normal range of healthy heterosexual males and females, respectively. In both homosexuals mor...