{"id":27308,"date":"2009-10-13T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/13\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be-1\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:13:42","slug":"athletes-are-more-likely-to-be-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes are more likely to be gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A repost<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is obviously true, and i\u2019ve been saying this for a long time.  And I\u2019m not talking about the butt-slaps and sharing chewing tobacco and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>To a certain extent, digit ratios seem to be a reasonable indicator of the kinds of hormonal environment in which a person develops in utero.  It turns out that the indicator of homosexuality is the same as the indicator of athleticism, only turned up even more.  In other words, a certain kind of hormonal environment in which a male fetuses develops can result in a higher likelihood of that person growing up to be an athlete.  But if that hormonal \u201cconditioning\u201d is turned up a bit more, you get a higher likelihood of that person being gay.  How strong is this effect?  Well, it\u2019s statistically significant but not large.  Is it genetic? That is not at all clear.  How does this work with women?  That\u2019s not clear either.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, from this we can speculate that there should be a higher percentage of gay-osity among athletes than among other men.  And now there is some new information that supports this model.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA study of former high-school American Football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men.<\/p>\n<p>In his study of homosexuality among sportsmen in the US, sociologist Dr Eric Anderson found that 19 in a sample of 47 had taken part in acts intended to sexually arouse other men, ranging from kissing to mutual masturbation and oral sex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is, as always a twist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 47 men, aged 18-23, were all American Football players who previously played at the high school (secondary school) level but had failed to be picked for their university&#8217;s team and were now cheerleaders instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like George Bush, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/10\/071029100619.htm\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A repost This is obviously true, and i\u2019ve been saying this for a long time. And I\u2019m not talking about the butt-slaps and sharing chewing tobacco and stuff. To a certain extent, digit ratios seem to be a reasonable indicator of the kinds of hormonal environment in which a person develops in utero. It turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes are more likely to be gay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-76s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}