Gay men and straight women have similar brains


	Gay men and straight women have similar brains

nhorn

6-16-2008 2:24 PM

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6-16-2008 8:24 PM

meancookie89

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6-17-2008 2:27 AM

righthand

Brain scans also showed the same symmetry among lesbians and straight men, the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

All lesbians the same? Gay men, yes but I'd have thought that there was the girlie girlie and the butch lesbians?

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Gay men and straight women share some
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emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a
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