Jacques Balthazart

This web site namely contains a detailed description in French and in English of his research concerning : His publications can also be found in the repository of the University of Liège called ORBI.

On nait homosexuel, on ne choisit pas de l'être[14] summarizing the current knowledge on the biological mechanisms that control sexual orientation in animals and humans.

This book has been often discussed and reviewed as scientific attempt to reduce the gap between the American and English approach in neurobiology on the subject of homosexuality, and the south-European vision which is more based on psychology and psycho-analysis.

Radio channels like France Culture have organized debates over this change or perspective[15] Newspapers like Le Monde,[16] the Nouvel Observateur[17] have extensively commented his works, and a 50 minutes TV documentary, produced by Mona Lisa Corp, titled Homo ou hétéro, est-ce un choix ?,[18] by Thierry Berrod, has been aired on French national channel France 3 that has given a large audience to his theories,[19] after being featured in Belgium on national TV RTBF in November 2014.

The full list of the more than 380 publications of Jacques Balthazart can be found on the PUBMED web site that gathers all the biomedical scientific literature and where the author has his own page.

Jacques Balthazart, Belgian endocrinologist