Some people are attracted to women; some are attracted to men. And some, if Sigmund Freud, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and millions of self-described bisexuals are to be believed, are drawn to both sexes.
But a new study casts doubt on whether true bisexuality exists, at least in men.
The study, by a team of psychologists in Chicago and Toronto, lends support to those who have long been skeptical that bisexuality is a distinct and stable sexual orientation.
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In the new study, a team of psychologists directly measured genital arousal patterns in response to images of men and women.
The psychologists found that men who identified themselves as bisexual were in fact exclusively aroused by either one sex or the other, usually by other men
The main problem is that they're doing a study based on physical arousal from photos. As we all know, physical arousal or lack thereof is not a 100% reliable indicator of physical attraction or lack thereof, and physical attraction (which I assume they're going for since they're using photos) does not always equal sexual attraction And even if physical attraction were an accurate measure, different people are attracted to different kinds of people. Did the study take into account that some people like hairless muscley blond men and other people like big fat hairy men?
This also makes me seriously wonder what they hoped to achieve from this study. Why would you question a people's self-identification anyway instead of granting them the basic human respect of taking them at their word for who they say they are? That would be like doing a study to prove or disprove the existence of a particular phobia or food preference - especially doing a study of a small sample group and then extrapolating to the general population. Imagine:
"I like peaches."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do!"
"Studies show that people who say they like peaches really don't salivate sufficiently when they see peaches. Therefore you don't really like peaches. I think you should stop deluding yourself and get some psychiatric help."
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Come over and take my sex survey, it's confidential and the more participants that do, the better the numbers. But honestly, these surveys are often skewed by what the surveyors want to find.
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