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Hormones Influence Sexual Orientation?

  • December 07, 2004

The use of Thyroxine, a synthethic hormone, as well as amphetamine-based diet pills has been linked to influencing a higher rate of homosexuality among child-bearing women and their offspring -- prominently females -- according to a new study. Mothers of homosexuals were at least five times more likely to have taken synthetic thyroid medications during pregnancy than mothers of heterosexual women and eight times more likely to have used amphetamine-based diet pills such as Dexedrine...