{"id":302,"date":"2009-12-09T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-12-14T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:13:13","slug":"the-fourth-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2009\/12\/the-fourth-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"The fourth sexual orientation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/insight\/article\/734318--the-fourth-sexual-orientation\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em> article<\/a> by Jesse Bering discusses a 2004 research study by Professor Anthony Bogaert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Brock University psychologist Anthony Bogaert, there may be more genuine asexuals out there than we realize,&#8221; the article reads. &#8220;In 2004, Bogaert analyzed survey data from more than 18,000 British residents and found that the number of people (185, or about 1 per cent) in this population who described themselves as &#8216;never having a sexual attraction&#8217; was just slightly lower than those who identified as being attracted to the same sex (3 per cent). Since this discovery, a handful of academic researchers have been trying to determine whether asexuality is a true biological phenomenon or, alternatively, a slippery social label that some people may prefer to adopt and embrace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Toronto Star article by Jesse Bering discusses a 2004 research study by Professor Anthony Bogaert. &#8220;According to Brock University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}