HOMOSEXUALITY AND HORMONES
There is also no evidence in humans that homosexuality is due to an abnormal hormonal balance which occurred pre-natally. This is in contrast to lower animals (and birds) whose sexual ‘preferences’ and attitudes can be reversed if sufficient doses of the inappropriate sex hormone is injected into the mother at a precise time during her pregnancy.
Nor is there any evidence that once adult, people with a homosexual erotic preference have lower blood levels of the male hormone, testosterone, although one investigation suggested this. Recent, more accurate measurements of blood levels of testosterone show that there is no difference between those of heterosexuals and those of homosexuals.
A homosexual preference is neither inherited nor due to hormonal imbalance, but it may be due, to some extent at least, to conditioning during infancy and childhood. In several studies of homosexuality by psychoanalysts, one or more of the following relationships or behaviours were said to lead to a homosexual erotic preference.
-Too intense or possessive mothering
-A weak, affectionless, or absent father
-A combination of an intense relationship with the mother and a distant or weak relationship with the father
-Strict, unbending, moralistic, uncommunicative, sexually repressed parents
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