Talk:Handedness and sexual orientation
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[edit] For real?
We have an article with four studies where there are two that have no significant differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and in another there's a very limited number of cases? And the fourth is a meta-analysis. This is not serious people... Raystorm 10:24, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
- It's weird. All the cited studies seem to agree there may be some degree of correlation to handedness, but they differ strongly on what degree and in what way - certainly there's enough to keep people looking. It'll remain one of those statistical curiosities, at least until someone develops a Grand Unified Theory of sexuality and linked genetic traits, I suspect - and even then it may just be a freak correlation as opposed to any significant linkage. Shimgray | talk | 10:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Possible Reason for Correlation
I don't have any studies to refer to, so I'll mention it here. Social pressure tends to repress both left-handedness and homosexuality. Presumably, there are a lot of "natural" left-handed people who have been "converted" to right-handedness, and a lot of "natural" homosexual people who have been "converted" to heterosexuality.
I suspect the correlation between left-handed people and homosexual people is a third trait: sheer tenacity. Someone willing to resist social pressures to change handedness is more likely to resist social pressures to change sexual preference, and vice-versa. Without that tenacity, someone is extremely likely to become right-handed and heterosexual, regardless of their "natural" preference.
Remande (talk) 16:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
