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on Saturday November 14 2015, @07:56AM
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from the does-that-mean-they-are-crooked? dept.
Gay women tend to be exclusively sexually attracted to women, while straight women are more likely to be aroused by both sexes, a study says.
Researchers asked 345 women about their sexual preferences and compared these with their arousal levels when shown videos of attractive men and women.
They found 28% of straight women were mostly aroused by their preferred sex, compared with 68% of gay women.
The University of Essex study concluded that no woman is "totally straight".
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:21AM
Slutty slutty sluts.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:38AM
He/she must have a really busy sex life.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @09:08AM
I am not normally attracted to other women, but given the right woman in the right circumstance… I have made many innuendos at bars. I even had the hots for one of my apprentices. I do not think these relationships would result in happiness, however, so I did not pursue them.
I even confused a trans man I know when I was in pursuit of another trans man, but that went horribly wrong. We reconciled, a few years later. Well, I reconciled with the one, given that he is the #0 ranked Amazon. (I perhaps should not reveal this, but what the hell, this world is coming to an end.) The other one, I'm not so sure about. I hope his franchise does well.
Let that stand out there as a data point.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:15AM
"I said any threesomes would be guy guy girl...or Charlize Theron"...Harmony:BTVS
I have yet to meet a woman that wouldn't be attracted if the woman was smoking hot, hell my wife is as straight as they come but will still drool at Salma Hayek doing the dance in From Dusk 'til Dawn so this surprises me not at all.
I think this doesn't affect guys because we are pretty much hardwired to compete and see fellow males as a threat, after all throughout the animal kingdom the males have to compete for mates and the losers have their line die out whereas with females there isn't a constant struggle so this isn't an issue.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:41AM
Heh, of course this all plays in to the Amazon reproduction ritual. Fuck reproduction rituals, we're talking about fun here! She does not even need to be smoking hot! I'd consider the #0 ranked Amazon to be butt ugly compared to me! Heh, that's just baiting you guys. TPP, TTIP, and TISA are coming. Expect the worse.
Otherwise, you are correct, given normal circumstances. These, however, are extraordinary.
Perhaps after my second time through the year from hell, I might finally indulge myself.
Your point about how males see other males should be modded up in unto itself—given the SJWs, and how this hacks them…
Perhaps it should also be modded down. I don't know. I blew all my mod points in soaking orgasm. Eh, I'm just trying to be provocative.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:36PM
Maybe, but seeing as how there have been well-documented societies where male-male sex was common (e.g. ancient Greece), I think we need to at least question that idea that it's "hardwired". And the animal kingdom? Male apes have been shown to get it on with each other too.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:58PM
Actually most of Greek culture frowned on actual penetration and considered the one who was penetrated to be the weak one, thus reinforcing what I said. See Plato's writings on the subject for more information.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:19PM
That is irrelevant.
We are talking about being aroused and attraction as per the article. NOT penetrative sex or being in a homosexual relationship.
These are VERY different things.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:35PM
This is the most confusing post ever. What the heck is the #0 ranked Amazon? Is this something from one of those TV reality shows?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:54PM
My first thought was some sort of ranking feedback system on Amazon.com, but maybe she means the ugliest member of the tribe of Amazon women?
Not sure whether "#0" is worse or better than "#1" though. Are we talking 0-indexed or 1-indexed? ;)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:25PM
Wonder Woman?
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday November 14 2015, @11:38PM
#0 ranked Amazon ... Sthenolagnia?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:05AM
No lesbian is totally gay... so there's still a chance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:37PM
Actually, the opposite was the interesting part of this study.
It showed that gay women had 'arousal' more similar to straight men.
Women were previously shown to have their bodies recognize a wider range of things as being sexual than men, and responding to it, regardless of actual sexual interest. This shows gay women don't respond to as much.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:37PM
I would submit myself as exhibit A for "some lesbians are totally gay," thanks :) There are men whom I consider attractive in the same way I would a work of art, think "Greek statue-making" here, but that doesn't mean I want them in my bed.
...or is this the "if you've ever used a dildo you're not really gay hurr hurr" essentialism movement? I'm not phallophobic; if my girlfriend somehow grew a penis (which after all is just a giant glans clitoris that drains your urethra), I'd happily let her use it on me every which way. I'd have a LOT of questions about how it got there of course...
And really...so long as the love and commitment are there, what does it MATTER who does what with whom? No matter what, just never hurt someone else with your sexuality; stick to that and you can't go wrong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 14 2015, @10:10AM
I long ago stopped worrying about what women do, or don't do. Whatever turns them on, or off, at least 98% of all the women I've ever know are (at least outwardly) kind, loving, nurturing people. The ones who are not - well - like men, there are some women who should have been drowned while they were still puppies.
I told my son that at least a hundred times before he moved in with one of those two-legged dogs who would eat her own young.
Some of you will think I exaggerate. I watched the woman take full financial advantage of her son's serious injuries when he was burnt. I watched her fail utterly as a parent after he came home from the hospital, not debriding his wounds, not putting pressure garments on him, not doing any form of physical rehabilitation, not being there at all. Our own son, burnt equally badly, has full use of his arms today, while her son's arms are drawn up like claws, severely limited in motion.
I may be a judgemental old fool, but any parent who doesn't put the rest of his/her life on hold to properly care for a seriously injured child is no parent at all, and unfit to live in society.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:45PM
Or the ones that think alcohol is thicker than blood.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @11:02AM
Studies like this are trash, because they reach conclusions they cannot possibly justify. It would take only a single example somewhere in the world to prove it wrong, and there are billions of women. If the results of this study are even correct at all (and I am wary of this sort of 'science'), at most they could conclude that it is highly unlikely for a woman to be "totally straight", not that no woman anywhere qualifies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:22PM
That might technically be so if you insist being such an inkhorn.
I myself already find the statement it is highly unlikely for a woman to be "totally straight" quite the claim. The world is full of all kind of wonders, embrace them and don't bitterly fight some kind of made up boogiemen.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:58PM
That might technically be so if you insist being such an inkhorn.
It's not being pedantic. I expect good science, not worthless trash. Bad science being pumped out constantly just gives science deniers more reason to deny the good science (of course, they would probably find reason to reject it anyway) and confuses the gullible.
I myself already find the statement it is highly unlikely for a woman to be "totally straight" quite the claim.
Well, so would I. But that's just a hypothetical scenario where all of their research isn't total nonsense; that's all they could claim in the best case scenario.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:45PM
Attack their methods, not their results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:56PM
I am attacking their methods. When they make such exaggerated claims ("X doesn't exist at all.") and reach conclusions based on silly subjective nonsense, they are doing real science a disservice.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:29PM
I don't think they understand what straight is. Straight people have been having same-sex sex for millenia now. That's a completely separate matter from a person's sexual orientation. There's many reasons for it. For example a lack of women, is probably the most obvious. Then there's curiosity and an opportunity to bond.
There comes a point where feelings of attraction towards the opposite or same sex become so minute that there's not any way of knowing that they're even there. For social reasons, I'd wager that it's more likely for women to realize that they're having those kind of feelings than it would be for men. I know I had no idea I was attracted to other men until I realized that I was. As tautological as that is, that's more or less how it worked. Denial is a surprisingly strong force.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Sunday November 15 2015, @03:20AM
Also, what people are aroused by is not necessarily what they want to go to bed with.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @11:35AM
It's the 99% of social scientists that make social science a laughing stock.
(Score: 5, Funny) by inertnet on Saturday November 14 2015, @11:40AM
I love that they're curved.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:36PM
Wisdom of the ages courtesy of David Spade on Just Shoot Me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:05PM
Sure, they drink two drinks, and then are still two drinks away.
It's like any technology that's 25 years away, it was 25 years away 25 years ago and will still be 25 years from now.
A woman drinking 10 drinks? Still two drinks away...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:46PM
Sounds like a guy whose let too many women tease him for drinks.
Boy, that gets expensive, fast!
The guy usually ends up working doing something no-one else wants to do, then giving his hard-earned dough to a bar-owner, in the hopes the fluid he buys for her will win her over. The guy goes home disgusted, tired, and broke. The woman goes home with a hangover the next morning. The bar-owner buys some more investment property.
This is what the TV ads call "living the good life". Its called "having fun". You know, there are a substantial number of us that will actually pay for this experience?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @09:45AM
I just want my jetpack and a three way!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:12PM
Probably knows better than anyone, that women dress at least as much for other women than for men, who often don't notice unless the outfit is sexually provocative.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:45PM
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26501187 [nih.gov]
I fucking hate this shit. Would it kill the BBC to at least state the title of the study. It took me at least 15 minutes to find an abstract with just an author's name and the journal.
Maybe they do it on purpose, so they can make bullshit conclusions that aren't supported by the actual study
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:56PM
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25603717 [nih.gov]
Since I also came across this similar study I might as well put it here for anyone that can get past the paywall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:45PM
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php?s=Sexual+arousal%3A+the+correspondence+of+eyes+and+genitals [lib.rus.ec]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:06AM
Thanks for the link, but you are wrong. The abstract starts with:
It goes on to discuss some differences with lesbians, but female bisexuality is a central topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:36AM
A positive result in a sexual arousal test is enough to make that conclusion?
The abstract says "women are, on average".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:41AM
No less "enough" than other bits it talks about. Have fun splitting hairs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:10PM
Likewise, no man is totally straight either.
When you are watching your hard core porno, do you want to see the woman get rammed by a guy with a small penis or a large penis?
A large penis?
See what I am saying :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:53PM
When I watch porn I look for an average penis that resembles mine so that I can fantasize that it is mine. The pornos that work best for me don't show much of the guy and are shot from his POV. The guy's legs cannot be super hairy and he should be circumcised, just like me.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Justin Case on Saturday November 14 2015, @09:08PM
do you want to see the woman get rammed by a guy with a small penis or a large penis?
Well, I like to fantasize that it's me in there with her, so it has to be large to be realistic...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday November 15 2015, @11:08AM
I understand that was determined by the Kinseys in the 1950s.
To the extent any but a very few are totally straight or totally gay it's because of society's expectations or their own inability to come to terms with their sexuality.
It's quite common for high school students to be openly gay these days but it was quite rare when I was in high school from 1978-1982.
I myself am openly bisexual however my attraction to men is quite different from my attraction to women. When I meet a woman I am attracted to I commence courting her in hopes that she will accept my offer of marriage then bear my child. With men, I just want to get an anonymous blowjob in a video booth or maybe through a glory hole.
I did finally work up to hanging out at a gay bathhouse, but that's mostly because they have really good wifi, power sockets, free cofee refills and hot showers. So at times I go there late at night, have a shower, get dressed then write code all night long. The two bathhouses I've been to have two sections, one is quite dark and there is man-on-man action there 24/7. The other is brightly lit, I wear my clothes everyone else wears a towel around their waist.
(I came out to the woman who is now my ex-wife very early in our relationship. She just asked me to remain sexually faithful to her. I always was. But when I finally came to terms with our divorce, I tore a huge, loud, wide swath through the sexual community of Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Portland.)
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