Dr. Marc Breedlove

Yeah.

It is, in fact, a linear progression at that rate.

So Ray's worked that out.

Of course, it's hard to find men that have had more than four or five older brothers, especially these days.

But it turns out in the Kinsey surveys, Ray went to the Kinsey surveys way back then.

You know, those those interviews were incredibly thorough.

And so they have a record of how many siblings of each sex every one of those men had.

And and you can see it there, too.

And it's another one of these cases where I tell you this and you tell me, well, I know somebody who has two older brothers and they're gay.

Is that why?

Absolutely.

So you tell me, oh, I know somebody who has two older brothers and he's gay.

Is that why he's gay?

And I really can't tell you.

There's no way to know because, in fact, most men with two older brothers are straight, right?

Again, it's one of these instances where it gives you no predictive power about one individual, why they are gay.

Ray Blanchard has done the statistics.

And their estimate is of all the population of gay men, about one in seven are gay because their mother carried brothers before them.

And what I mean is those same men with the same genotype, same genes, if their mom hadn't had older brothers before them, they'd be straight today.

Statistically speaking.