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Contents:

• BRAS OF GAY PEOPLE REMBLE THOSE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE OF OPPOSE SEX
• STUDY SAYS BRAS OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN ARE SIAR
• SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A DIFFERENCE BEETWEEN THE BRA OF A STRAIGHT MAN AND THAT OF A GAY MAN
• A GAY MAN’S BRA LOOKS A LOT LIKE A STRAIGHT WOMAN’S BRA
• GAY MALE BRAS AND HOW THEY ONCE HELPED EVERYONE SURVIVE.
• GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX
• GAY MEN, STRAIGHT WOMEN HAVE SIAR BRAS
• WHAT THE GAY BRA LOOKS LIKE
• BRAS DIFFERENT GAY, STRAIGHT PEOPLE
• GAY, STRAIGHT MEN'S BRA RPONS DIFFER
• GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE

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

Overall, the specific bra regns homosexual mal tend to be siar to heterosexual women (more female‐typil), while the same bra regns homosexual women tend to be siar to heterosexual men (more male‐typil).

STUDY SAYS BRAS OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN ARE SIAR

But attractive fac and enticg pheromon are both related to sex, and rpons to them uld be learned over Savic’s and Ldstrom’s new study shows that the differenc extend to fundamental aspects of the bra that aren’t directly lked to sex or behavur, and that are probably fixed om ia that straight men have more asymmetril bras than gay men fs wh prev rearch. From prev studi, we know that the nnectns ually lk to different areas the bras of men and women, and sprout om different hemispher -the right men, and the left was the pattern that Savic and Ldstrom saw the straight volunteers om their study, but the homosexuals showed the reverse pattern.

For example, the amygdalas of gay men had more mon wh those of straight women – the two halv were well-nnected, they had more nrons projectg om the left half (as opposed to the right straight men) and the nrons nnected to the same parts of the bra that those of straight women nnectns provi some tantalisg hts about how gay and straight people differ their behavur. 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.

SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A DIFFERENCE BEETWEEN THE BRA OF A STRAIGHT MAN AND THAT OF A GAY MAN

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. For stance, early studi reported an almost two-fold volumetric crease of the suprachiasmatic nucls of the hypothalam16 but twice smaller volum of the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3) homosexual (HoM) relative to heterosexual men (HeM) and no volumetric differenc the INAH-3 between heterosexual women (HeW) and HoM17.

A GAY MAN’S BRA LOOKS A LOT LIKE A STRAIGHT WOMAN’S BRA

In another voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study on sexual orientatn, ls gray matter nsy was observed the ventral cerebellum, the left ventral premotor rtex, and the temporo-basal rtex homosexual relative to heterosexual women22. Furthermore, homosexualy seems to be associated wh ls distct cerebral sexual together, although extant fdgs suggt that human sexual orientatn is associated wh bra morphology, the heterogeneo and limed number of studi preclus a thorough unrstandg of the shared and distct nral signatur of sexual orientatn men and women. MethodsParticipantsMRI data of 37 men (21 homosexual men = HoM; 16 heterosexual men = HeM) and 37 women (19 homosexual women = HoW; 18 heterosexual women = HeW) entered the analys (see Supplementary Table 1 for sample mographics; N = 74).

Participants were reced through universy bullet boards, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer or Qutng + (LGBTQ +) anizatns Aachen, Cologne and surroundg areas, and by word-of-mouth remendatn. All participants were asked to dite their sexual orientatn at the time of measurement g a 1 to 4 sle rangg om (1) exclively homosexual, (2) predomantly homosexual, (3) bisexual, or (4) heterosexual. A homogeney check intified no outliers, th the GM volum of all 74 participants (21 HoM, 16 HeM, 19 HoW, 18 HeW) were clud subsequent analys: sexual orientatnFirst, whole-bra analys were performed g full factorial signs to pare GMV wh rpect to sexual orientatn (whole sample and per blogil sex, i.

GAY MALE BRAS AND HOW THEY ONCE HELPED EVERYONE SURVIVE.

05 FWE-rrected at voxel level) revealed creased GMV the thalam, postcentral gys, middle occipal gys, precentral gys, middle temporal gys, and the cerebellum heterosexual pared to homosexual participants (see Fig. 05, FDR-rrected for multiple parisons) were intified for each clter for hetero- vers homosexual dividuals across the whole sample (irrpective of blogil sex) and men and women separately (sex-specific). Clter 1: Thalam (MNI 9, − 21, 9)The heterosexual > homosexual orientatn analysis (irrpective of blogil sex; whole sample) related this thalam seed to actn executn, perceptn, somthis, pa, and to fger tappg, pa monorg and discrimatn paradigms.

Clter 2: Pre- and postcentral gys (MNI − 41, − 18, 66)Heterosexualy > homosexualy (whole-sample) analys related the pre-/post-central gys to actn executn, speech, perceptn, and somthis functnal domas, and to paradigms cludg fger tappg, drawg, flexn/extensn, and reward. DiscsnIn this study we vtigated rti-subrtil gray matter volume differenc homosexual and heterosexual dividuals to addrs the sparse and heterogeneo fdgs on morphologil bra differenc associated wh sexual orientatn. Breakg the rults down by blogil sex, highlighted that hetero- vers homosexual women (HeW > HoW) showed larger GMV the precentral gys, while the reverse ntrast (HoW > HeW) revealed larger GMV the putamen.

In heterosexual and homosexual dividuals, the meddorsal thalam was more activated by fac of the preferred sex relative to fac of a ls sired sex, pennt of the observers’ blogil sex or sexual orientatn45. While ngently suggtg that hypothalamic activatn has downstream effects on visual perceptn likely impactg the selectn of sexual partners46, prev fdgs also support a role of the thalam signalg sexual reward47 and aroal among homosexual and heterosexual thalam has numero reciprol rti-thalamic nnectns wh reward and sensory-motor regns49. Neverthels, our rults preclu the possibily that the morphologil differenc between homo- and heterosexual dividuals reflect atypil cerebral sex studi showed that the precentral gys is implited the regulatn of emotn and self-evaluatn51, cludg the perceptn of body image52.

GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX

Homosexual men showed creased actnal amplu of low-equency fluctuatn (fALFF) the left postcentral gys54 pared to heterosexual men, whereas both heterosexual and homosexual dividuals exhibed higher activy of the post-central gys durg subjective aroal55.

Sports engagement) or are at least partially ntgent on how much effort dividuals vt to obta putamen emerged as the only regn wh creased gray matter volume homosexual vers heterosexual dividuals but the difference was driven by homosexual women.

GAY MEN, STRAIGHT WOMEN HAVE SIAR BRAS

Although, to the bt of our knowledge, there is no evince for an associatn between sexual activy and bra morphologil phenotyp, future studi should asss markers of sexual activy to exame potential effects of genr atypily wh homosexual and heterosexual groups.

Studi reached the same ncln when to homosexualy, and ls than 10% of the people sre as "pure" heterosexual or homosexual and on average, femal are more cled than men are towards a homosexual orientatn. The bate over the roots of homosexualy is possibly the most ntent maniftatn of the "nature vers nurture" argument; gay rights advot, gay rights opponents, and scientists have all joed the ay, advancg and cricizg different theori.

The rearchers also looked at the amygdala, a part of the bra that's associated wh emotns, and found that straight women and gay men both have more nnectns between the amygdala and bra regns associated wh anxiety and mood disorrs.

WHAT THE GAY BRA LOOKS LIKE

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 [New Scientist]. The fdgs, which will be published the Proceedgs of the Natnal Amy of Scienc [subscriptn required] tomorrow, didn't go so far as to suggt a e for the bra differenc between gay and straight folks. Perhaps gay male sexual preference is a by-product of a specific group of gnive and emotnal skills that helped survive – skills that may have been “expensive” for an dividual gay man, but were sential for the populatn as a whole.

BRAS DIFFERENT GAY, STRAIGHT PEOPLE

Their imag show that the bras of gay people, certa featur cludg symmetry and nnectns to the bra's emotnal centre are more closely matched to the bras of straight people om the oppose sex.

For example, the amygdalas of gay men had more mon wh those of straight women - the two halv were well-nnected, they had more nrons projectg om the left half (as opposed to the right straight men) and the nrons nnected to the same parts of the bra that those of straight women do. 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. “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.

GAY, STRAIGHT MEN'S BRA RPONS DIFFER

June 17 -- MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) - MRI and PET sn studi are showg remarkable siari between the bras of gay men and straight women, and between those of lbians and straight example, the bras of straight men and of gay women share certa mon featur: both are slightly asymmetric, wh the right hemisphere larger than the left, say the Swedish the other hand, the bras of gay men and straight women are both symmetril. "This is a very tertg study monstratg a possible nroblogil relatnship bra size between gay men and straight women, " said Pl Sanberg, distguished profsor of nrosurgery and director of the Universy of South Florida Center for Agg and Bra Repair Tampa.

For this study, rearchers om the Karolska Instute Stockholm first performed magic ronance imagg (MRI) on 90 participants -- 25 heterosexual men and an equal number of heterosexual women, pl 20 homosexual men and 20 homosexual women. The right hemispher of straight men and gay women were found to be bigger than the left, while the rpective volume of the two cerebral hemispher were about the same gay men and straight women.

GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE

Scientists at the Karolska Instute studied bra sns of 90 gay and straight men and women, and found that the size of the two symmetril halv of the bras of gay men more closely rembled those of straight women than they did straight men. Sns of the bras of gay men the study, however, showed that their hemispher were relatively symmetril, like those of straight women, while the bras of homosexual women were asymmetril like those of straight men.

Vila, who studi the geic factors behd sexualy and sexual orientatn, not that may turn out that the bras of gay men posss only some 'femized' stctur, while retag some mascule on, and this is reflected how they act on their sexualy. “This rearch is potg to basic differenc the bra between homosexual and heterosexual people that are likely there right om the begng, ” said Sandra Welson, a profsor of psychiatry and behavral nroscienc at McMaster Universy Ontar. So Savic and her lleague, Per Ldstrom, first ed magic-ronance imagg, or MRI, to pare the symmetry of the bras of 25 straight men and 25 straight women wh those of 20 gay men and 20 gay women.

“There’s this clter of terrelated fdgs, ” said Richard Lippa, a profsor of psychology at California State Universy, Fullerton, who has found evince that gay men, the hair on the back of the head is more likely to curl unterclockwise than straight men. The fdgs also f wh studi showg gay men tend to choose profsns that typilly attract women, such as teachg and social work and have verbal and other gnive skills that tend to be more like women’s, he said. While ngently suggtg a ls pronounced or atypil sexual differentiatn of cerebral midle stctur, most of the studi vtigated a sgle stcture, or ed a sgle metric, and none really addrsed the qutn as to whether the tected differenc between homo- and hetero-sexual persons reflected a wispread atypil cerebral sex dimorphism, cludg several different facets of bra stcture, among HeM or rtrictive chang around the cerebral midle.