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@oblique
When I wrote most of gay male have a female brain, I should have been more precise. There was an histological study on brain gender of "straight" men and women (dead of course, since they sliced up the brains) and homosexual people. Biological differences between male and female brain in humans are well documented. Compared to women, men have been found to have larger volumes, relative to cerebrum size, or differences in neuronal densities in other limbic and paralimbic regions [i.e. amgydala (Giedd et al., 1996), hypothalamus (Swaab and Fliers, 1985; Allen et al., 1989; Zhou et al., 1995) and paracingulate gyrus (Paus et al., 1996)], larger genu of the corpus callosum (Witelson, 1989) and overall white matter volume (Passe et al., 1997; Gur et al., 1999), and greater cerebrospinal fluid [lateral ventricles (Agartz et al., 1992; Kaye et al., 1992) or sulcal volume (Gur et al., 1999)]. Some have argued that men have more neurons across the entire cortex (Pakkenberg and Gundersen, 1997; Rabinowicz et al., 1999) and women, more neuropil (Jacobs et al., 1993; Rabinowicz et al., 1999). In short, men and women don't have the same brain. And a study showed that most homosexual men have a female histological brain profile.
So I guess you're meaning that the study showed that this is the reason why men can be attracted to other men? (I guess I was refering more to behaviour type aspects).
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I want to precise here that these differences don't give any clue on who is smarter. The time when big brains mean big intelligence is far gone. A parrot has a far smaller brain than a cow. In my fifth year of college, there was as much men and women but at the exam, on the ten first people there was only one guy.
no, that was a time when they used weird instruments to measure brain capacity. and as you said, being bigger does not always mean better, nor would the differences between a female and male brain indicate who is smarter.
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But there is one thing you have to keep in mind when you read such studies that give or take back arguments on biological clues related to sexuality : although these articles are written by well known serious scientists, most of the time the biological research is based on unwarranted assumptions about human sexuality, sex differences, and sexual orientation that have been imported from the social sciences and popular beliefs. Un fortunatly, behind objective science and documented arguments, biological research on homosexuality is too often based on personal beliefs and cultural prejudices.
Sadly, all studies are biased to a certain extent, no matter what you read. That was drilled into my brain in first year university, and I'm only in my 2nd. I see your point though, it sucks when what you read might sound very good but has a lot assumptions and biases that might have affected the result of the study. Particularly with something like sexuality as it is is such a touchy issue for so many people.
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Last edited by oblique at 6:47 am, Nov 23 2007
And also sometimes about female homosexuals.. o.O Just because it doesn't feel 'right'.. But that's how society programmed me.. 
