Birth Order and Family Size of UK Biobank Subjects Identified as Asexual, Bisexual, Heterosexual, or Homosexual According to Self-Reported Sexual Histories
Jan Kabátek,
Ray Blanchard
Abstract:This study used a recently developed statistical technique to investigate the relations between various elements of a subject’s family background and the odds of that subject reporting a sexual history indicative of a minority sexual orientation. The subjects were 78,983 men and 92,150 women who completed relevant questionnaire items in the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database of volunteers aged 40–69 years. The men were divided into three sexual minority groups—homosexual, bisexual, and asexual—and a… Show more
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