FIGURE 12-27 Hypothalamus and Sex in Males Red regions on the left and right represent bilateral activity in the hypothalamus of men viewing erotic film clips. This activity was absent as the men watched sports clips.

Republished from ”The Hypothalamus, Sexual Arousal and Psychosexual Identity in Human Males: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study,” by M. Brunetti, C. Babiloni, A. Ferretti, C. Del Gratta, A. Merla, and M. Olivetti Belardino, 2008, European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 2922–2927, FIGURE 2, permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.