STUDIES STUDIES STUDIES: David Barnes replies to Michael Triplett

To quote the Stacey paper (PDF): "Relative to their counterparts with heterosexual parents, the adolescent and young adult girls raised by lesbian mothers appear to have been more sexually adventurous and less chaste, whereas the sons of lesbians evince the opposite pattern—somewhat less sexually adventurous and more chaste (the finding was statistically significant for the 25-girl sample but not for the 18-boy sample)."

Even if not for the caveat at the end, I still see a big difference between reigning in the sex drives of teenage boys by teaching them about the problems of having sex while too young and frustrating the sex drives of teenage boys through gender confusion. The former seems much more likely to help boys develop healthy relationships in the future than the latter.
posted by Eve at 11:19 PM VOTE

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