U.N. Study Says Men Should Be Kind to Women, Less Virile

GENEVA — There might be fewer lesbians and homosexuals if men were kinder to women and less concerned with their sexual performance, a U.N. report said today.

The 34-page document on the problems of sexual minorities, drafted by Jean Fernand-Laurent, a former French ambassador to the U.N. European Office in Geneva, said society has probably over-emphasized the differences between the sexes.

“It is . . . likely that the assertion of a purported male supremacy has had a deeply disturbing effect on many women, and that there would be fewer lesbians if men were able to be more affectionate, more attentive and more tactful.

“There would be less impotence and homosexuality if men did not feel called on by the social model (of virility) to achieve with their female partners an exceptionally high level of sexual performance,” the report said.