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"For example, it has been argued that the medical records of post-mortem individuals contain insufficient data to reliably allocate those individuals to different categories of sexual identity, that LeVay's use of the categories "heterosexual" and "homosexual" is modeled on outdated notions of sexual identity, that the post-mortem brains of many of the subjects may have been modified by complications from AIDS, that LeVay conflates male homosexuality with femininity, that the sample size is too small for reliable comparisons between groups to be made, that LeVay's hypothesis can only be sup

24 - “Instead, this essay will offer some wider speculations about the character of neurological substrate revealed in LeVay’s data. The methodological and conceptual limitations of LeVay’s study are indispensable to these speculations, not because they constitute errors (that, presumably, another study could correct) but because these methodological and conceptual constraints twist the data in ways that reveal the texture of neurological structure.”

“This essay will argue that one interpretive approach to LeVay’s data is to illuminate the relation between, on the one hand, the inertly dimorphic forms of sexuality that his methodology solicits, and on the other hand, the exceptional neurological and sexual forms that his data discloses.”-what his model and framework conveys about him“LeVay contends that an area in the human hypothalamus homologous to this area in animals may be involved in regulating sexual behavior in men and women.