Diversity in Human Sexuality
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Originally posted on June 16, 2015.
I was alerted, by this article in Nature, to a new report on sexual orientation from the Academy of Science of South Africa. The report is state of the art. It’s lucid and easily readable. It gets the important facts exactly right (methinks). And it speaks to pertinent issues in African countries, and also to controversies here in the USA. “Spread the word. Share the report and its findings,” opined Nature in a separate editorial.
The full report, here, responds, for example, to the contention that condoning homosexuality increases it. It notes that, in African countries (in most of which same-sex relationships are illegal), “The prevalence . . . is no different from other countries in the rest of the world.” The report estimates, from the best worldwide data, “that between 350 million and 400 million people are not heterosexual. At least 50 million people who do not claim a heterosexual orientation live in African countries.”
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