I'm Just a Sexual Mosaic

It’s true... I couldn’t find my way out of a paper bag if my life depended on it. So when Kent and I take day trips around the state, it doesn’t really take too much to get me lost. One time, I went to see a friend in Manchester, Connecticut (the “black hole” of the state). I was lost for almost two hours just trying to find my way back home! When I finally came upon a freeway sign, I was on the other side of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, Connecticut.

So now, I don’t worry about it. We both decided that my sense of direction is so horrible, that we bought a car that at least knows where it is. “Take the Next Right... In half a mile, take the first left.” You get the idea. It talks in a masculine, somewhat aggressive, yet understanding voice. And no matter where I am, I can just say, “Go Home”, and it will take me home. Kinda like those red slippers did for Dorothy!

Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests.

But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, gay women read maps just like straight women, reveals the study of 80 heterosexual and homosexual men and women.

“Gay men adopt male and female strategies. Therefore their brains are a sexual mosaic,” explains Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist who led the study at the University of East London, UK. “It’s not simply that lesbians have men’s brains and gay men have women’s brains.” (source)