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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The science of sexual orientation
AuthorSimon LeVay
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiology
Published2011 (Oxford University Press)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages432
ISBN978-0-19-973767-3

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The science of sexual orientation is a 2011 book about the development of sexual orientation by Simon LeVay.[1]

Outline

LeVay details the findings of more than 650 studies that have been conducted since his 1991 study of the hypothalamus.[2] He argues that sexual orientation is an aspect of gender that emerges from the prenatal sexual differentiation of the brain, being determined by a combination of sex hormones, genes, and the womb environment, including factors such as stress during pregnancy. Rather than stopping at birth, the influence of genes and hormones continues over the life span.[1]

Scholarly reception

LeVay's book was reviewed in New Scientist by Deborah Blum, who called it "rational, smart and compassionate" but also observed that it showed that scientific understanding of sexual orientation had advanced less than might be hoped since LeVay's 1991 study. Blum commented, "I was dismayed to discover that many of the most influential studies cited here spring from previous decades...when a chapter on the importance of biology in sexuality contains 32 citations and 23 of them date to the year 2000 or earlier, a book can feel a bit dated."[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Blum 2010
  2. ^ Staples 2010.

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