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WCDT: 2401-2405 (11-15 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Tai Fanboi on 14 Mar 2013, 04:31 ---Long and short of it, I'm a historian. I specialize in WWII small arms and weaponry. Have actually loaned a few pieces of my collection to the History channel and Hollywood (Sparingly, they don't treat them as well as History Channel does)
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I must put you in contact with a G/F of mine. Lynette Nusbacher. In a previous incarnation she appeared on many military history programs on the History Channel.
I can still remember the "Immediate Action - Gas Stoppage" drill on the Bren Mk 1. Mk 2 was easier IIRC. Lovely weapon, even I could put all 3 rounds of a burst into a dinnerplate sized target exposed for 5 secs at 200 metres.
sitnspin:
Interesting, ZoeB. I am not trans, but I am totally visually stimulated. But, I am also an artist, so visuals are something I respond to in general. I am not sure if my keying toward visual stimulation is a result of studying painting or if my predisposition toward the visual arts is a result of my tendency toward visual stimulation. I remember reading somewhere quite some time ago that lesbians tend to have more "male" structured brains, something to do with the release of testosterone during a key point in fetal gestation, but I don't know how much truth there is to that and I can't recall where I read it.
That being said, tastes and smells definitely aid in the arousal process.
jwouk, you are almost as old as my parents would have been if they were still alive.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 14 Mar 2013, 08:03 ---Apparently, males are/tend to be more visually oriented, females are/tend to be more smell and taste oriented. Trans women are female-typical neurologically here.
See:
Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids. by Berglund et al Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(8):1900-1908;
--- Quote --- ...the data implicate that transsexuality may be associated with sex-atypical physiological responses in specific hypothalamic circuits, possibly as a consequence of a variant neuronal differentiation.
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Interestingly, my sense of smell kicked in in high school. I was at an all boys' school, but for choir at the end of the day we shipped in sopranos and altos from the girl's school up the street. We'd be in the choir room, and they'd troop in... and the air changed. Noticeably.
It was my favorite time of day, even though after a few breaths I had trouble hiding the pitched tent with my music folder.
OK, maybe that needed to go into the TMI thread. Sorry.
sitnspin:
One of the many reasons I am glad I am not a man. Hiding my arousal is not difficult at all, unless the person has an decidedly acute sense of smell.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Mar 2013, 08:23 ---I remember reading somewhere quite some time ago that lesbians tend to have more "male" structured brains, something to do with the release of testosterone during a key point in fetal gestation, but I don't know how much truth there is to that and I can't recall where I read it.
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Same thing causes Transsexuality, just at a different "Golden Moment", and different parts of the brain are involved. The foetus ends up more or less Androphillic/Gynephillic, and Male/Female identifying. Usally male genitaliais associated with male gender identity and gynephillia, but there are exceptions (ie gays exist, trans men exist, trans women exist, intersex people exist...)
fMRI Scan of Homosexual/Heterosexual Men/Women
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