Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation
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The hormonal theory of sexuality holds that, just as exposure to certain hormones plays a role in fetal sex differentiation, such exposure also influences the sexual orientation that emerges later in the adult. Prenatal hormones may be seen as the primary determinant of adult sexual orientation, or a co-factor with genes, biological factors and/or environmental and social conditions.
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See also
- Geschwind–Galaburda hypothesis
- Biology and sexual orientation
- Environment and sexual orientation
- Handedness and sexual orientation
- Genetics of gender
- David Reimer
- Mental roots of sexual orientation
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