Neuringer C
Psychology Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045.
Arch Sex Behav. 1989 Dec;18(6):523-9. doi: 10.1007/BF01541678.
There is a belief that a high percentage of male actors are homosexual. The specific linking of actors and homosexuality seems to have first appeared in the Elizabethan Puritan condemnations of the theater. Psychoanalytic theory has tended to further promulgate the linkage between effeminacy, homosexuality, and acting. An analysis of the relevant existing empirical literature indicates that few studies have addressed themselves to evaluating this relationship. Those studies supporting the effeminacy-actor relationship were seriously flawed both in design (e.g., use of indirect measures to infer homosexuality) and interpretation of the data. Only one study used direct measures of sexual orientation. Even though that study had methodological problems, its results indicated that the percentage of homosexuality among actors was not verifiably greater than that found in the general population. It is felt that the current belief of greater homosexuality in actors, as compared to the general population, is a product of our Puritan heritage, the actor's unconventionality, and of public flaunting of the homoerotic behavior of that portion of actors that are homosexual.
有一种观点认为，很大比例的男性演员是同性恋者。演员与同性恋之间的这种特定联系似乎最早出现在伊丽莎白时代清教徒对戏剧的谴责中。精神分析理论倾向于进一步宣扬柔弱、同性恋和表演之间的联系。对现有相关实证文献的分析表明，很少有研究致力于评估这种关系。那些支持柔弱与演员关系的研究在设计（例如，使用间接测量来推断同性恋）和数据解释方面都存在严重缺陷。只有一项研究使用了性取向的直接测量方法。尽管该研究存在方法问题，但其结果表明，演员中同性恋的比例并不比普通人群中发现的比例高到可证实的程度。有人认为，与普通人群相比，目前认为演员中同性恋比例更高的观点是我们清教徒传统、演员的非传统性以及同性恋演员对同性恋行为的公开炫耀的产物。
