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No Woman 'Totally Straight', Study Says

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 14 2015, @07:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the does-that-mean-they-are-crooked? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:45PM (#263262)

    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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:56PM (#263265)

    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 Sunday November 15 2015, @01:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:06AM (#263523)

    Thanks for the link, but you are wrong. The abstract starts with:

    Studies with volunteers in sexual arousal experiments suggest that women are, on average, physiologically sexually aroused to both male and female sexual stimuli.

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:36AM (#263526)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:41AM (#263538)

        No less "enough" than other bits it talks about. Have fun splitting hairs.