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Comparative Reproductive Output of Androphilic and Gynephilic Males in Samoa
Ist Teil von
Archives of sexual behavior, 2014-02, Vol.43 (2), p.363-367
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Debate exists in the behavioral sciences regarding the extent to which androphilic males reproduce compared to their gynephilic counterparts. Quantitative data that might speak to this debate are surprisingly rare. Here, we compared the reproductive output of 235 transgendered, exclusively androphilic Samoan males (known locally as
fa’afafine
) to that of 447 exclusively gynephilic Samoan males. Samoan gynephilic male participants fathered significantly more children than
fa’afafine
participants. In fact, none of the
fa’afafine
in our sample produced offspring. On the basis of this evidence and anecdotal accounts in the anthropological literature, we contend that absence of reproductive output is a near absolute cross-cultural universal characterizing non-Western, transgendered androphilic (“third-gender”) males. Models for the evolution of male androphilia must account for how genes associated with this sexual orientation originated in the past and persisted in populations over time despite the fact that the vast majority of androphilic males have no direct reproductive success.