{"id":872,"date":"2007-11-07T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T10:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/07\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T10:41:24","slug":"athletes-are-more-likely-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes are more likely to be gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Reposted without revision from gregladen.com]<\/em>This is obviously true, and i&#8217;ve been saying this for a long time.  And I&#8217;m 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 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 &#8220;conditioning&#8221; is turned up a bit more, you get a higher likelihood of that person being gay.  How strong is this effect?  Well, it&#8217;s statistically significant but not large.  Is it genetic? That is not at all clear.  How does this work with women?  That&#8217;s not clear either.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>A study of former high-school American Football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men.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><\/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><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like George Bush, right?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/10\/071029100619.htm\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Reposted without revision from gregladen.com]This is obviously true, and i&#8217;ve been saying this for a long time. And I&#8217;m 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/athletes-are-more-likely-to-be\/\" 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":[],"tags":[95],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-e4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}