#575 J. Michael Bailey: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Arousal, and Gender Identity
RECORDED ON OCTOBER 1st 2021.
Dr. J. Michael Bailey is an American psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and professor at Northwestern University. His interests include sexual orientation, gender nonconformity, sexual arousal, behavior genetics, and evolutionary psychology. He maintains that sexual orientation is heavily influenced by biology and male homosexuality is most likely inborn. Dr. Bailey wrote The Man Who Would Be Queen, a book intended to explain the biology of male sexual orientation and gender to a general audience, focusing on gender nonconforming boys, gay men and male-to-female transsexuals.
In this episode, we talk about sexual orientation, sexual arousal, gender identity, and transsexualism. We start with sexual orientation, the different kinds out there, if it is inborn, and if we have already been able to identify brain areas or genes associated with it. We discuss sexual arousal, what is it, how it is measured, and femininity-masculinity. We also mention the fraternal birth order effect in homosexuality. We talk about gender identity and gender nonconformity. We discuss transsexualism and its different kinds, including homosexual transexuals and autogynephilic transexuals. We talk about gynandromorphophilic men. Finally, we discuss the relationship between behavior genetics and evolutionary psychology.
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Intro
What is sexual orientation?
Is sexual orientation inborn?
Sexual orientation across societies, in the brain, and in the genes
The fraternal birth order effect
Sexual arousal
Gender identity, and gender nonconformity
Transsexualism, and its different kinds
Behavior genetics and evolutionary psychology
Follow Dr. Bailey’s work!
Follow Dr. Bailey’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2RC0ukZ
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3wvVKfl
Amazon page: https://amzn.to/3fLyjI6