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Nathaniel McConaghy, DSc, MD
School of Psychiatry University of New South Wales Anzac Parade PO Box 1 Kensington, New South Wales, Australia 2033

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51(5):431-432.

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I their review of the literature concerning biologic theories of human sexual orientation, Byne and Parsons¹ overlooked some issues of relevance. Biologic theories can account for the feelings that motivate behaviors; the behaviors themselves will be strongly determined by environmental factors—in the case of sexual orientation such factors as available opportunities and social and legal sanctions. A number of men Who identify and express their sexuality mainly or exclusively as heterosexual report strong or predominant homosexual feelings.² In a US narional probability sample, 14% of men considered homosexual sex offered them some possibility of enjoyment and 12% of men considered that heterosexual sex offered them none.³ yet, only 6.7% of the men reported homosexual contacts resulting in orgasm after age 19 years, and in half of these, the contacts were rare.⁴ Contrary to the statement by Byne and Parsons^1(p229) concerning "the pattern of essentially exclusive . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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