Mystery:Do Sports Affect Sexual Preference?
From Conservapedia
A extremely small percentage of men in aggression-based sports are homosexuals. In professional football, baseball and basketball, the rate of homosexuality is less than 1 in 1000, or less than 0.1%, consisting of only a handful of current and former professional athletes (out of over 10,000). Nearly all professional athletes began to compete as children before identifying with a sexual preference, and their success is largely a function of their skill and determination rather than their sexuality. Accordingly, the low rate suggests that participation in aggression-based sports lowers the rate of homosexuality among males.
On the flip side, an unusually high percentage of women in aggression-based sports are lesbians. The rate is debatable, but could easily be over ten times the overall rate in the general population. "Fans have come to expect a certain percentage of gays in women's sports."[1] This suggests that participation in aggression-based sports increases homosexuality among females, as nearly all of those athletes began competing and succeeding before identifying with a sexual preference.
In some cases, the athlete switches her sexual preference after prolonged participation in a sport. Billie Jean King apparently concluded she had a different sexual orientation during her tennis career, after she had married her husband Larry: "Fifty per cent of gay people know who they are by the age of 13, I was in the other 50%. I would never have married Larry if I'd known. I would never have done that to him. I was totally in love with Larry when I was 21."[2]
Aggression-based sports encourage and reward aggression, while passive behavior is discouraged. People who play aggression-based sports develop more aggressive personalities than they would otherwise, and it is logical to expect that to carry over into sexual preference.
