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Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« on: December 01, 2008, 07:22:25 am »
Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ

Courtesy Time Magazine – Dec. 1, 2008


Ever since scientists realized that the seat of love and lust is not the heart but the brain, they’ve been looking for how the brains of homosexuals and heterosexuals differ.

Researchers in Sweden have new clues. Studying brain scans of 90 subjects , they found that the right hemisphere is slightly larger than the left in both men and women who are attracted to women.

Men and women attracted to men, on the other hand, have brains that are more symmetrical.

Brain symmetry isn’t the whole story, and other researchers have found that additional variables as diverse as genes and birth order (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,23172.0.html ) can play a role.



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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2008, 07:24:26 am »

Well, I've been called many things in my life, but symmetrical has to be a first!  ;)   :laugh:
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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2008, 11:42:43 pm »
this was discussed on anther thread some time back. I see the controversy remains.

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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2008, 02:28:02 am »
Don't know about brains and being symmetrical but the picture, well minus the umbrella that's me  :laugh:

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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2008, 02:48:27 am »
Don't know about brains and being symmetrical but the picture, well minus the umbrella that's me  :laugh:

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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2008, 03:06:39 am »
Don't know about brains and being symmetrical but the picture, well minus the umbrella that's me  :laugh:

When you say "that's me," Matt, do you mean you fancy him or that he looks like you?  :D
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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2008, 05:58:51 am »
When you say "that's me," Matt, do you mean you fancy him or that he looks like you?  :D

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Give me a few months on the new diet and a couple of years at the gym and I might look like him

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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2008, 09:18:19 pm »
My right hemisphere is slightly larger than the left! Haha.
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Re: Brains: How Gay & Straight Differ
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2008, 04:53:50 pm »
Do gays cross their legs like that?

I am a gay man and desire to do so if another gay man I can be with!


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