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In the last couple of decades, there has been intense debate over sex and gender and over how societies perceive and categorize sexual roles and sexual behaviors. Developments in neuroimaging methods allowed us to push research on this topic further and investigate the functional and structural neural phenotype underlying gender and sexual behavior and, in particular, sexual orientation. Sex differences in brain morphology have been extensively documented in neurocognitive and behavioral domains 1,2 . Differences are reported in total brain volume, gray and white matter proportions and volumes, as well as in tissue densities of several phylogenetically old structures including the insula, hippocampus, thalamus, putamen, amygdala, and the cerebellum 3,4,5,6,7 . While these findings may imply a greater probability of innate encoding of reproductive and self-preservation