The Darwin Digest 31: Homosexuality

Soap Merchant
The Right Stuff
October 8, 2016

This week on the Darwin Digest we cover homosexuality.

0.00.00 The search for the gay gene

0.17.31 Homosexuality & Disease

0.30.05 Gays & antibiotic resistance

0.43.06 D’nations

0.47.31 Homosexuality and Mental health

1.05.00 RE: The Daily Shoah & and the liberal understanding of science

1.14.38 AMREN’s comment of the week

1.17.55 Final thoughts

References:

Jannini, E. A., Blanchard, R., Camperio-Ciani, A. and Bancroft, J. (2010), Male Homosexuality: Nature or Culture? The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Largest Study of Gay Brothers Homes in on ‘Gay Genes’

Our high risk behaviours episode:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19028957
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339660

Chakraborty, A. et al. Mental health of the non-heterosexual population of England. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 198, February 2011, pp. 143-48.

King, M. et al. A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self-harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people. BMC Psychiatry, Vol. 18, August 2008, 8:70.

King, M. and Nazareth, I. The health of people classified as lesbian, gay and bisexual attending family practitioners in London: a controlled study. BMC Public Health, Vol. 6, May 2006, 6:127

Sandfort, T. G. M., de Graaf, R., Bijl, R. V., et al (2001) Same-sex sexual behavior and psychiatric disorders: findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS). Archives of General Psychiatry, 58, 85-91

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