Conversely, most men show substantial sexual arousal to their preferred sex but not to their non-preferred sex (Bailey, 2009). Women show, on average, substantial physiological sexual arousal to sexual stimuli featuring either females or males, regardless of their self-reported sexual orientation. Thus, women’s sexual and behavioral traits, and potential anatomical traits, are possibly masculinized at different stages of gestation. Furthermore, homosexual women reported and displayed more masculinity than heterosexual women, but their masculinity was not associated with their male-typical sexual arousal. Still, variation in women's digit ratios did not account for the link between their sexual orientation and their male-typical sexual responses. However, they did not have more male-typical digit ratios, even though this difference became stronger if analyses were restricted to white participants. Homosexual women responded more strongly to female stimuli than male stimuli and therefore had more male-typical sexual responses than heterosexual women. We further measured observer- and self-ratings of psychological masculinity–femininity as possible proxies of prenatal androgenization. Our main marker of masculinization was the ratio of the index to ring finger, which we expected to be lower (a masculine pattern) in homosexual women due to increased levels of prenatal androgens.
We measured the sexual responses of 199 women (including 67 homosexual women) via their genital arousal and pupil dilation to female and male sexual stimuli. We hypothesized that homosexual women’s male-typical arousal is due to their sex-atypical masculinization during prenatal development. However, compared with heterosexual women, homosexual women are more aroused to their preferred sex, a pattern typically found in men. Maybe they're not such tall tales after all.In general, women show physiological sexual arousal to both sexes. A man's small shoe size has also been taken to reflect certain penile shortcomings. In an episode of "Friends," Ross, Chandler and Joey show off their hands after hearing that penis length is the same as the distance between the index finger and the thumb. Largely dismissed old wives' tales have long held that a man's hands and feet hold clues about his genitalia and their various metrics. The "gay" link did not hold true for men, however. In 2000, a controversial study suggested women who had a 2D:4D ratio more typical of a man's were more likely to be lesbians. It has also been linked to a higher risk for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, prostate cancer and arthritis. Women tend to have ring and index fingers of roughly equal length - a result of less testosterone exposure in the womb, report the Korean researchers.īut men who have relatively long ring fingers are thought to have been exposed to high levels of testosterone in utero, and this has been linked to aggression, athleticism, sexuality, intelligence, and even the ability to trade high-stakes stocks. The length of the penis when stretched is believed to correlate to its erect length, the team reported.Įarlier studies suggest the 2D:4D ratio is governed by prenatal exposure to the male and female sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen. "Based on this evidence, we suggest that digit ratio can predict adult penile size, and that the effects of prenatal testosterone may in part explain the differences in adult penile length," the researchers reported Monday in the Asian Journal of Andrology. But Kim and colleagues linked a larger gap in finger length - a lower 2D:4D ratio - to a longer stretched-out penis. Men's ring fingers are usually longer than their index fingers. Tae Beom Kim from Gachon University in Incheon, Korea, measured the fingers and penises - both stretched-out and flaccid - of 144 men who were anesthetized before undergoing urological surgery. July 5, 2011— - The longer a man's ring finger when compared with his index finger, the longer the length of his penis, according to Korean researchers.
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