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doommaggot  ·  3257 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Correlation between penis size and sexual orientation

I'm not sure about the point of your comment, or how you managed to get anything anti-gay out of the post title or the linked abstract.

    Similarly, testosterone acts on the external genitalia largely following conversion to DHT, but may require conversion to estradiol before exerting some of its neurobehavioral effects. This last difference could even explain the apparent paradox of larger penises, suggesting greater DHT exposure, in homosexual than in heterosexual men. If more of the testosterone these men produce is converted to DHT in the periphery, less could be available for conversion to estradiol in the brain, thus leading to greater masculinization of the external genitalia, but reduced neurobehavioral masculinization. This possibility is highly speculative, however, but the point that genital masculinization and neurobehavioral masculinization need not parallel one another, because of the varied downstream mechanisms involved in testosterone’s effects on development, is important.

This part of the paper you linked is interesting though, and it does address my other comment