The Gay Science

If there is one thing that has always seemed obvious about homosexuality, it's that it just doesn't make sense. Evolution favors traits that aid reproduction, and being gay clearly doesn't do that. The existence of homosexuality amounts to a profound evolutionary mystery, since failing to pass on your genes means that your genetic fitness is a resounding zero. "Homosexuality is effectively like sterilization," says psychobiologist Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary College in London. "You'd think evolution would get rid of it." Yet as far as historians can tell, homosexuality has always been with us. So the question remains: If it's such a disadvantage in the evolutionary rat race, why was it not selected into oblivion millennia ago?

1. 10 to 12 percent of men are gay.
2. Gay men have longer, thicker penises than straight men, on average.
3. As children, most gay men display gender-bending behavior, like dressing up in their sisters' clothes or playing with dolls.
4. In general, gay men are worse than straight men at certain cognitive skills, like reading maps, spatial orientation, finding missing objects, and packing trunks.
5. Lesbians are better than straight women at certain spatial, navigational, and language tasks.
6. Men with the most masculine voices tend to be straight.
7. Gay men often have distant fathers, suggesting that levels of childhood affection have an effect on sexual orientation.
8. The more older brothers you have, the more likely you are to be gay.
9. Sexual orientation correlates with whether you are right- or left-handed.
10. The ratio of the lengths of the second to fourth fingers predicts sexual orientation.

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