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The human species attributes meanings to sexuality. This is probably best captured in John Money's concept of the lovemap,5 defined as: ‘one's own concept of an idealized lover and idealized erotic and sexual activity in our imagery or actually carried out'. There is more to human sexuality than mounting and lordosis!
‘A theory is a good theory if accurately describes a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations; you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory'.6 Some clinical syndromes with abnormal prenatal endocrine conditions have been associated with a higher prevalence of homosexuality later in life, but the differences with control subjects are small and there is, not rarely, a forceful attempt to prove the point that androgen exposure of girls predisposes them to become lesbians and a less-than-normal androgen exposure of boys would increase the likelihood of future sexual orientation to men.7 There are simply too many human homosexuals who do not fit in this paradigm. It is safe to say that the prenatal history of nearly every homosexual person has b