Found this good explanation of brain sex.  watch from about 1:25 onwards

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY3QH_jOtE&feature=player_detailpage#t=5033s

Awesome! For my essay in one of my classes I got a small portion of what he mentioned. Kinda wish I knew about this sooner so I could have included it... pulling something from a Stanford Professor for an essay seems a lot more definitive.

Interesting link, as are others on the list on it's YouTube page.  The part I found most compelling was the absence of phantom penile feelings in post-op TS after SRS removed the penis which could well be demonstrative of the brain's lack of expectation in the penis being there in the first place.  In men who have their penis removed due to trauma or for cancer, phantom penile feelings can be present.  In other words, the brain does not miss it in the post-op TS.

This post was edited by wendy larsen at March 27, 2012 10:41 PM BST