Male or female identity is hard-wired in the brain even before the sex organs

[cin]

Here's something you all may be interested in about the brain and gender and sexuality. It's not what people always thought. It says the brain is wired for male or female even before sexual development of the genetilia.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031022062408.htm

Here is an abstract

Refuting 30 years of scientific theory that solely credits hormones for brain development, UCLA scientists have identified 54 genes that may explain the different organization of male and female brains. Published in the October edition of the journal Molecular Brain Research, the UCLA discovery suggests that sexual identity is hard-wired into the brain before birth and may offer physicians a tool for gender assignment of babies born with ambiguous genitalia.

[Cai]

Makes sense if you think about it - genes control the development of nearly everything else, why not sexual identity?

[Jolene]

If this is true it does explain many things about myself.
Jolene :)

[Mitch23]

Hmm - interesting

Mitch

[Valerie]

Thanks, Cin! That most interesting article led me to another that may interest especially GGs,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030613075252.htm
Its main point: "In contrast to men, both heterosexual and lesbian women tend to become sexually aroused by both male and female erotica, and, thus, have a bisexual arousal pattern." What can't women do? Or, as my mother used to say, never underestimate the power of a woman.

Valerie

[cin]

Thanks, Cin! That most interesting article led me to another that may interest especially GGs,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030613075252.htm
Its main point: "In contrast to men, both heterosexual and lesbian women tend to become sexually aroused by both male and female erotica, and, thus, have a bisexual arousal pattern." What can't women do? Or, as my mother used to say, never underestimate the power of a woman.

Valerie

Thanks. i heard about that too.