SOC 145 Lecture Notes - Social Constructionism, Pansexuality, Transgender Sexuality
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In 2003, dr. robert spitzer contended that people can change their sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. In 1993, drs william byne and bruce parsons examine the most prominent gay gene on brain structure and on identical twins, and published the results in the archives of. All it does is support a widely accepted theory about hormones and gender. Levay found that the hypothalamus was generally larger in heterosexual men than in homosexual men: he concluded that the findings suggest that sexual orientation has a biologic substrate. In reality, what it found was matching sequences in each set of brothers who were both homosexual. In 1998, dennis mcfadden and edward g pasanen published a study that evaluated auditory systems: nu"man. In march 2000, the media publicized a finger length study that indicated that lesbians had longer fingers than other women, perhaps because of greater exposure in the womb to androgens.
