List and describe at least three factors that have been associated with the development of a sexual minority identity.
What will be an ideal response?
There has been much research and speculation about why some people have same-sex attractions and others do not, but no firm and clear answers are available. The results of hormone studies have been inconsistent. For example, sexual-minority men who were given androgens experienced increased sexual desire but no change in sexual orientation. Looking at hormonal influence in the prenatal period suggests that exposure of the fetus to hormone levels characteristic of females might cause the individual (male or female) to become attracted to males. Simon LeVay found that tiny area of the hypothalamus that governs sexual behavior is twice as large in heterosexual men as in sexual-minority men. Critics of LeVay's work point out, however, that many of the men he studied had AIDS, which could have affected the structure of their brains. Research on the sexual orientations of identical twins found that a high number of identical twin pairs share the same sexual orientation. This finding suggests that there may be a genetic component to sexual orientation. Researchers in this field believe that sexual identity is a result of genetic, cognitive, environmental, and hormonal factors.
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