Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0223 |
| Title: | Prenatal stress feminizes and demasculinizes the behaviour of males |
| Author(s): | Ward IL |
| Reference: | Science 1972; 175: 82-84 |
| Place of Study: | USA |
| Abstract: | Subjecting pregnant rats to stress during the last third of pregnancy results in inverted sexual orientation of the male offspring. |
| Keyword(s): | emotional state in pregnancy, homosexuality, sexual orientation |
| Discussion: | One of the studies suggesting that there is in the perinatal period a phase of brain development which is critical for sexual orientation. It is likely that the maternal stress hormones antagonise fetal testosterone production. See entries 182 224,225, 226 and 227. |
| See Also: | 0224, 0225, 0226, 0227 |
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