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    Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    What turns us on and where we place ourselves on the sexual spectrum is exceedingly personal. A new study investigating the existence of this spectrum may prove somewhat controversial, then: It claims that women are almost always gay or bisexual and are almost certainly not straight. The research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.


    Previous studies using volunteers to investigate the sexual arousal of both men and women have been conducted. Many have suggested that women are, on average, physiologically aroused – as in, showing physical changes in their bodies indicating attraction – to both male and female sexual stimuli. The same is apparently not true for lesbians as, surprisingly, they are significantly more aroused by their own sex than by the opposite sex.
    This new study, led by Dr. Gerulf Rieger from the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, asked 345 women of varying sexual orientations to watch a series of videos featuring sexual content. At the same time, their biological responses were measured, including their pupil dilation and their genital response (pulse and blood flow).


    The subjects were women ranging in age, educational background, and ethnicity. They were asked to place themselves on a sexual spectrum scale, identifying themselves as either “straight,” “mostly straight,” “bisexual leaning straight,” “bisexual,” “bisexual leaning lesbian,” “mostly lesbian,” or “lesbian.”


    The results indeed found that women who identified as heterosexuals were, on average, strongly aroused by videos of both attractive men and women. In contrast to this, self-identified lesbians exhibited a far stronger response to women than men, which the researchers likened to the responses of heterosexual men: both groups show proportional levels of attraction to their self-identified sexual orientation.


    A major criticism this paper is likely to receive when it is published is that arousal is not precisely the same as sexual orientation, despite the language of the lead author suggesting so in the media. “Even though the majority of women identify as straight, our research clearly demonstrates that when it comes to what turns them on, they are either bisexual or gay, but never straight,” Dr. Rieger said, as reported by Pink News.


    The study notes that, unlike men, a woman’s sexual attraction may be less affected by a partner’s sex and more influenced by cultural and social factors; these factors include relationship history, educational experiences, religious beliefs and cultural assimilation. As a result of this, a woman’s sexual attitude may vary far more than a man’s, and studies such as this one – and others – appear to back this idea up. Hormonal exposure levels from a young age are also cited as a possible explanation for the general variability in responses to sexual stimuli.


    It’s a distinctly tricky subject: The authors of the study also mention that “there is considerable variability across sex in physiological sexual arousal to male or female stimuli.” They point out that their research base falls into the Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic – or WEIRD – demographic, and thus their results cannot be accurately applied to the wider populace just yet.


    http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/study-suggests-women-are-all-bisexual-or-gay-almost-never-straight

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    ..but I suppose that men are mostly straight right? That only makes me hate labels even more. I remember one study I thought I heard about where men got aroused any time they thought of sex, period..or anecdotally speaking, I've never heard of a man complain about the dick in a porn movie.. If we wait for researchers to tell us what "norms" are, I think we'll be waiting for a very long time..

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    I don't think that the study gives any information about men at all. Men were not part of this study. The control factor was that all subjects are female. I suspect that there are studies of male sexuality. I also suspect that it looked at male sexuality as straight or gay...ignoring male bisexuality. I don't know though.

    I am confused amused how quickly people from the US jump to dismissing scientific research. Wtf goes on in US schools to create this skepticism...lol? If this study illustrates anything is that the "norm" for females is not heterosexual. The expected norm for females is different than what mainstream believes.

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    Quote Originally Posted by tenni View Post
    I don't think that the study gives any information about men at all. Men were not part of this study. The control factor was that all subjects are female. I suspect that there are studies of male sexuality. I also suspect that it looked at male sexuality as straight or gay...ignoring male bisexuality. I don't know though.

    I am confused amused how quickly people from the US jump to dismissing scientific research. Wtf goes on in US schools to create this skepticism...lol? If this study illustrates anything is that the "norm" for females is not heterosexual. The expected norm for females is different than what mainstream believes.
    This "study" and "research" is completely biased, heterophobic, and false, and it's all based on junk science. If you are doing research about lesbian and bi women and you ask lesbian and bi women if they're lesbian or bi then that's why the numbers for this sham study are so skewed.

    Women can be bisexual or lesbian, and yes even heterosexual. Most people including women and men are heterosexual. Even Kinsey and his researchers did not find that most people are bisexual the way people who do not understand the Kinsey scale interpret it.

    If most people were really bisexual or gay, there would be no need at all for bisexual/lesbian/gay rights, you would not see closet cases posting about how they have to be 'discreet' and nobody can know that they're bisexual or gay, etc.

    Researchers, sexologists, and scientists do know about male bisexuality and that men can be bisexual.
    Last edited by pole_smoker; Nov 7, 2015 at 3:32 PM.

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    Hmmm...I thought we'd established a while back that *everybody* is turned on by attractive nude photos, whether of men or of women, and that for instance, what pornography (mm, ff, mf, mmf, ffm, trans, etc.) you are aroused by is a *terrible* indicator of sexuality (because we're turned on by all kinds of things we'd never want to do). And yet that appears to be the main basis of their definition for sexuality.

    Yeah...I don't see validity to this research.

    But Elian, that is *not* a problem with labels. It's a problem with definitions...particularly definitions that have been ginned up to prove a certain point.
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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

    i think we're all more bi than we think, to even a small extent. see that guy on the street & u think he's goodlooking? ur attracted to him. see that women & same thing? ur attracted to her too. doesn't mean u wanna sleep with any of them but u noticed & u liked not a strong attraction at all necessarily but it's there & then u probably forget. big deal.

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    Re: Study Suggests Women Are Bisexual Or Gay, But Almost Never Straight

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