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Acknowledgments

We appreciate the assistance of J. Michael Bailey in reviewing this Letter and in his willingness to share data. The research was funded, in part, by the American Institute of Bisexuality (http://www.bisexual.org/home.html) and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Federal Formula Funds (http://cuaes.cornell.edu/support/index.cfm) given to Cornell University for project NYC-321421. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the Letter.

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  1. Sex & Gender Lab, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Ritch C. Savin-Williams & Gerulf Rieger

  2. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    A. M. Rosenthal

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Savin-Williams, R.C., Rieger, G. & Rosenthal, A.M. Physiological Evidence for a Mostly Heterosexual Orientation Among Men. Arch Sex Behav 42, 697–699 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0093-1

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