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Dr. Marc Breedlove

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

they can adopt and things like that.

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

And so they're very much feminine, very straight women.

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

But they're XY.

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

But they're XYs.

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

So the question is, unfortunately in terms of understanding whether prenatal testosterone alters our sexual orientation, these individuals aren't useful to us because we don't know if they're straight women because their brains could never respond to the prenatal testosterone

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

Or are they straight women because they were raised as girls and socialized to be attracted to men?

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

It's a fascinating syndrome.

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

And there's at least one woman with AIS who's self-identified, who's a successful model.

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

And there's another woman who wrote a memoir that's quite good.

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

And what's interesting about it, when there's no testosterone response, they have very feminine faces, very feminine bodies.

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

And so there are...

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

frankly quite attractive as women.

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

It's been seen over and over.

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

I mean, it's really one of the rock-solid findings in human sexuality that was first noticed by Ray Blanchard at Toronto and has been seen in many populations all over the world.

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

So the way to emphasize the difference is if a baby boy is born today,

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

If he has no older brothers, his odds of being gay when he grows up is about 2%, right?

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

Pretty low.

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

But if he had one older brother, his odds go up by a third.

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

Okay, 2.6.

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

And if he has two older brothers, they go up a third again.