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the gay brain

Bra sns show siari shape and nnectns between gay bras and straight on om the oppose sex.

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STUDY SAYS BRAS OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN ARE SIAR

Bra sns have provid the most pellg evince yet that beg gay or straight is a blogilly fixed tra * the gay brain *

Scientists at the Stockholm Bra Instute Swen report the Proceedgs of the Natnal Amy of Scienc USA that gay men and straight women share siar tras—most notably the size of their bras and the activy of the amygdala—an area of the bra tied to emotn, anxiety and aggrsn.

GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX

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Prev studi have examed bra differenc between gay and straight people on the basis of their rpons to var tasks, such as ratg the attractivens of other people.

They found that the straight men and gay women had asymmetril bras; that is, the cerebm (the largt part of the bra, which is rponsible for thought, sensory procsg, movement and planng) was larger on the right hemisphere of the bra than on the left. They found that gay men and women, the blood flowed to areas volved fear and anxiety, whereas straight men and lbians tend to flow to pockets lked to aggrsn.

BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX

Rearch shows that gay men's bras remble those of straight women * the gay brain *

The imag show the amygdala heterosexual men and women (labeled HeM and HeW) and homosexual and women (labeled HoM and HoW)(Image: Natnal Amy of Scienc, PNAS). The sns reveal that gay people, key stctur of the bra erng emotn, mood, anxiety and aggrsivens remble those straight people of the oppose sex. Prev studi have also shown differenc bra archecture and activy between gay and straight people, but most relied on people’s rpons to sexualy driven cu that uld have been learned, such as ratg the attractivens of male or female fac.

WHAT THE GAY BRA LOOKS LIKE

First they ed MRI sns to fd out the overall volume and shap of bras a group of 90 volunteers nsistg of 25 heterosexuals and 20 homosexuals of each genr. The rults showed that straight men had asymmetric bras, wh the right hemisphere slightly larger – and the gay women also had this asymmetry.

STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT GAY BRAS

Gay men have higher rat of prsn too, she says, but ’s difficult to know whether this is down to blogy, homophobia or simply feelgs of beg “different”. “This study monstrat that homosexuals of both sex show strong cross-sex shifts bra symmetry, ” says Qazi Rahman, a leadg rearcher on sexual orientatn at Queen Mary llege, Universy of London, UK. “Paradoxilly, ’s more rmative to look at thgs that have no direct nnectn wh sexual orientatn, and that’s where this study sr, ” says Simon LeVay, a proment US thor who 1991 reported fdg differenc (pdf) a part of the bra lled the hypothalam between straight and gay men.

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