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Dr. Marc Breedlove

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

And we know there are plenty of women who are straight in one part of their lives and later they fall in love with a woman and now they feel like they're gay, right?

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

So females, women are more plastic in terms of their sexual longings and sexual orientation.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

than men are.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

I'll be a little more specific.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

I think it's among males where sometimes, for many males, not all, there's an aversive idea that the idea of having sex with the same-sex partner is aversive.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

Of course, context matters, right?

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

There's same-sex happening in prisons all the time when, you know, if the conditions are enough.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

And I don't know where that aversive component came from.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

It could be that our society, maybe it's all,

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

socially inculcated, you know, again, before we're aware of it at all.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

But I think there's also at least the possibility that there's a biological component to it, and I think that's what Chuck was getting at, in that here's this difference in the brain.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

He doesn't know when the difference happened in the preoptic areas, but it seems to correlate with this idea that maybe these gay rams, no, they're not interested.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

and having sex with her.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

It's aversive to them.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

It's aversive, yeah.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

There's no other way to, I can't, I don't know any other way to explain how they choose never to, never once mount a female.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

And this makes you old fashioned because that's not the world.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

I mean, our world seems to be hurtling towards this world of snippets.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

To me, that would explain these differences, these sex differences in who people are willing to have sex with.

Huberman Lab
How Hormones Shape Sexual Orientation & Behavior | Dr. Marc Breedlove

Your hypothesis fits the data.