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Homosexuality
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The Dubious Ethics and Efficacy of Conversion Therapy
The practice has been dismissed as improper for more than two decades.
Why Are So Many People in the South Watching Gay Porn Online?
Three theories attempt to make sense of some provocative new data.
Why Lesbians and Gay Men Don’t Live in the Same Areas
Gay men are still men and what woman wants to live near so many of them?
Jason Collins, Revisited
A new study explores how newspapers and social media framed a historic first.
Seduced by Gore Vidal
The complicated pleasures of Nicholas Wrathall's hagiographic new documentary.
Nature, Nurture, and a Third Option: Does Homosexuality Develop in the Womb?
Researchers of fraternal birth order effect argue that sexual orientation correlates with an individual’s number of older brothers. Could this help to explain the homophobia of some traditional religious societies?
The Tortured Rise of the All-American Bro
The misogynist portrait of modern American masculinity may be a historical accident. Here’s how to fix it.
What’s Wrong With Trying to Engineer Your Child’s Sexual Orientation?
Or, more specifically, what's wrong with taking a steroid, while you're pregnant, to try to increase the odds that your female fetus will someday grow up to be a straight woman who gives you grandchildren, and not a lesbian daughter more interested in puppies?
When Is a Kinky Interest Really Sick?
Of kinks, crimes, and kinds: A look behind the scenes at how the American Psychiatric Association's Paraphilias Sub-Work Group proposed revisions to the DSM for all manner of things relating to sexual arousal brought about by atypical objects, situations, or individuals.