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I've heard that quite a few times but have never seen any science to support it.

Homosexuality: A Natural Cause?

"Abstract: Male rats were exposed to prenatal (i.e. before they were born) or postnatal (after they were born) stress, or both. The prenatally stressed males showed low levels of male copulatory behavior and high rates of female lordotic responding. Postnatal stress had no effect. The modifications are attributed to stress-mediated alterations in the ratio of adrenal to gonadal androgens during critical stages of sexual differentiation. Specifically, it appears that stress causes an increase in the weak adrenal androgen, androstendione, from the maternal fetal adrenal cortices, or both, and a concurrent decrease in the potent gonadal androgen, testosterone."

Parental Stress Feminizes and Demasculizes the Behavior of Males, Science, January 7, 1972 (83-84).

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Thanks. I’ll take a look.

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After a cursory look at your link, I already see numerous issues with the article. The top section "interesting facts about being gay" lists 7 bullet items that have all been debunked.

The 1972 Ward study isn't included, just the abstract and some snippets, then the author, Dan Eden appears to take some liberties with what little is there. I'll see what I can find on the study.

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I've read about all I can find on the 1972 study you cited. Unfortunately nobody cites the text of the study. Even if the study supported the born that way theory, if that's all the evidence available, it's nearly worthless especially considering the twins studies and the other posts on this thread in regards to rats.