It’s the gene for adolescence.
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For more information about this topic, check out these resources.
The definitive University of Chicago study cited in the text is: The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practice in the United States, by Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), especially Chapter 8, Homosexuality.
“Same Sex Attraction in a birth cohort: prevalence and persistence in early adulthood,” Social Science and Medicine 56 (2003) 1607-1615.
For a summary of research on the fixity of same sex attraction, see
Jeffery Satinover, “The Trojan Couch,” NARTH Conference Reports 2005, available on-line at: http://www.narth.com/docs/TheTrojanCouchSatinover.pdf
Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austiaco, “The Myth of the Gay Gene,” Homiletics and Pastoral Review December 2003, reprinted on-line at: http://www.ignatius.com/magazines/hprweb/austriaco.htm
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love In A Hook-up World. She blogs at jennifer-roback-morse.blogspot.com
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