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The Sexual Brain
''The Sexual Brain'' is a 1993 book by Simon LeVay, about brain mechanisms involved in sexual behavior and feelings.〔LeVay 1993, p. xiv〕
==Summary==
LeVay discusses scientific research on sexual orientation.〔 He expresses skepticism about the work of Sigmund Freud, writing that he doubts that there is anything scientific about Freud's ideas.〔LeVay 1993, pp. xii-xiv〕 He describes the functions of the hypothalamus, which plays a key role in, "sex, diet, cardiovascular performance, control of body temperature, stress, emotional response" and growth.〔Stein 1999, p. 135〕 He claims, on the basis of post-mortem studies of gay men who died of AIDS, to have located a region of the brain that differs in gay and straight men.〔Rose 1997, p. 277〕 LeVay notes that his INAH 3 study was his only publication on sex to that date, and that most of his previous research had been on the visual areas of the cerebral cortex.〔LeVay 1993, p. xiii〕 LeVay compares homosexuality to the disease sickle cell anemia.〔LeVay 1993, p. 129〕
Discussing sexual intercourse, LeVay describes the reflexes that constitute the act of coitus in humans, and notes that orgasm triggers the massive release of an opiate-like hormone, oxytocin, from the pituitary gland.〔Berman 2003, p. 25〕
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