Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
I guess shepherds have known for ages that in any herd, there are some rams who will not mount a female ever and keep mounting other males.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
And of course,
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
to maintain a herd, you don't need every male to reproduce.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
But in the old days, those males got sent off to slaughter, right?
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
Well, hearing these rumors, Chuck did these tests where he would put a bunch of females that are in stocks, so they can't move, and they're all ready for
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
mating, and he put a ram in with them.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
And most rams, of course, will mount the females.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
He puts in these rams that prefer males.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
If there's a variety of sheep's butt sticking out at him, he'll mount males.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
including sometimes, you know, having intermission through the anus and all the way to ejaculation, and he never mounts a female.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
In some cases, they'll have one of these, I'm going to call them gay rams.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
I think they have an orientation.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
He'll put this gay ram where there's a dozen females, and he might be in that paddock for 12 hours and never mount a single female.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
And these are not typical rams.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
It's like a small percentage of the population.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
And I don't know how to explain that.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
I mean, you would think that these gay rams that, well, you know, an ejaculation is an ejaculation, right?
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
An orgasm is an orgasm.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
I presume they have orgasms.
Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove
You would think that at some point, well, there's nothing else to do in here.