Lesbians like straight men, researchers find

[bananas]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/amygdala_research/

Lesbians like straight men, researchers find

Why? Asymmetric brain structure

By Lester Haines → More by this author
Published Tuesday 17th June 2008 10:26 GMT

A study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has provided strong evidence that sexuality is a biologically fixed trait demonstrated in physical brain differences, New Scientist reports.

Specifically, key brain structures in homosexuals which govern "mood, anxiety and aggressiveness" resemble those in heterosexuals of the opposite sex - something likely to have been "forged" in the womb and not the result of later learning processes.

Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström chose to probe these specific brain parameters to avoid the pitfalls of previous studies which, while demonstrating "differences in brain architecture and activity" between gays and straights*, mostly relied on "sexuality-driven cues" which could have been "altered by learning or cognitive processes", as Savic put it.

Savic and Lindström put a group of 90 volunteers through the MRI scanner - 25 heterosexuals and 20 homosexuals of each gender - to determine their overall brain shape and volume. The results showed that straight chaps boasted asymmetric brains, "with the right hemisphere slightly larger", something they shared with lesbians.

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[scarletwoman]

1. Took me a minute to get that headline...

I'm sitting here thinking, "Huh? Why would lesbians like straight men?"

I get it now. Interesting study.

sw

[bananas]

4. I had to read the comments to get it

they're pretty funny -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/amygdala_research/comments/

[goodgd_yall]

7. Even reading the article, I still wasn't getting it

It would have been helpful to add an "are" in there.

[mcctatas]

6. OK...

wasn't just me then....

[Warpy]

14. A lot of them do, actually, as long as they're

the type of straight men who share their interests and don't demand to watch them with their partners.

There's an equivalent bond between straight women and gay men.

[OutNow]

2. Great - Ooops!

Perhaps the headline should be - Lesbians brains are similar to straight men

My first take was - OK, lesbians like straight men - hmmm, but then they wouldn't be lesbians ???? Ooohhh.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. That has to be the worst headline ever.

[JI7]

5. some moran will just read the headline and claim it proves they "choose to be lesbian"

[billyoc]

8. What's not to like?

Oh, nm. :rofl:

[safeinOhio]

9. Had that ray of hope

as a straight man that very few like.

[frogcycle]

10. too funny

aside from all the comments about the misleading headline...

The so-called study was idiotic to begin with. Everyone knows lesbians are like straight men. I mean, they like girls don't they? :rofl: (joke! its a joke! please don't start a tirade about how lesbians are nothing like straight men. I already know that.)

[zazen]

11. what does the extra spot on the lesbian brain (relative to straight) men communicate?

from The Register < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/amygdala_research/>



Remember Matt Groening's map of the cat brain? (e.g., 'inexorable fear of vacuum cleaners")

One could really have fun with this.

[bananas]

12. It's the ultimate Rorschach Test

It seems so scientifical - but is it any more scientifical than phrenology?

[Indenturedebtor]

15. Psychology is a diverse field. Rorschach tests are at one end of the spectrum

PET scans and electronic visual implants are at the other end of the spectrum. The different average shape of the brains of men and women is well established, as well as the corresponding average differnces in behavior. Eh why bother. I take it you studied or work in a linear science?

[soothsayer]

13. sure we like straight men. As friends.

[DireStrike]

16. Damn!

And here I was hoping that my habit of taking a liking to girls who turn out gay had a happy ending in the offing. Oh well.

[sakabatou]

17. That's what I figured out

And I'm not a scientist.

[Orrex]

18. Straight men like lesbians, too

Just ask Cinemax.