“Anything else is ‘transitional,’ ‘confusion,’ ‘experimental.’ As a result, researchers routinely eliminated bisexual individuals from research samples.
She added: “Historically, sexual orientation models assumed only two categories, exclusively homosexual and exclusively heterosexual. Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah said it was not always the case that “once a lesbian, always a lesbian.” Previous research has suggested that women’s sexuality can change throughout their life between lesbian, straight and bisexual. “Men have gotten so much cultural crap put on them that even if a man does have some sexual attraction to guys, they would never say it.” “There are aspects along a continuum, just as we have always recognized with women. We used to think that was only a female phenomenon,” Savin-Williams told Broadly. “We’ve always recognized mostly straight women, that is, women who mostly are straight but if the right woman comes along, well maybe she’ll try it out. Savin-Williams warned that cultural expectations of sexuality need to change in order for people to be more comfortable with who they are attracted to. Women’s eyes dilated watching both men with women and women with women.Īnd men’s pupils dilated watching both men and women masturbate, regardless of how they identified sexually. Lead author Rich Savin-Williams suggests that sexuality exists on a spectrum and that younger generations are more open to the idea of fluid sexuality than older adults.īoth male and female volunteers were asked to watch porn involving men or women as part of the research.Įxperts measured how much their pupils dilated - a sign of sexual arousal. Their research questions society’s strict definitions of sexuality and warns that we still struggle with the idea of bisexuality, especially when it comes to men.
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