Dr. Marc Breedlove

Those are huge sex differences compared to any, you know, cognitive things.

And in all those ways, gay men are totally masculine.

So how would that work that they were under-androgenized and yet they have all these sex differences in sexual attitude?

I think the difference between gay and straight men isn't in how much prenatal testosterone they got.

I think it's in how their brains responded to the testosterone that they got.

And we can talk about that some more later.

But back to the digit ratios, the lesbians had more masculine digit ratios than the straight women, on average.

And as you say, that's been replicated by many different labs,

Dave Putz at Penn State and Ashlyn Swift-Gallant and I recently published like the third meta-analysis and it's clear so many people have seen it.

It's there.

And as with Dennis' otoacoustic emissions, I don't know how to explain that.

Why would

Lesbians have a more masculine digit ratio than straight women unless, on average, they were exposed to more prenatal testosterone than straight women.

And why would that matter unless being exposed to prenatal testosterone makes you more inclined to be attracted to women when you grow up?

And what's really weird about it, think about the time lag.

Your first crush, this sudden, this mysterious, for me, it was like a visitation, right?

It's like, where'd this come from?

That happened six years after you were out of the womb, right?

And so it's really strange to think that something that happened to you before you were born...

would have an influence on who you're going to be attracted to six, ten years later when you have your first crush.