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Bisexuality Confirmed!

Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
A new study has found some individuals are sexually aroused by both men and women.

The new study upsets some earlier studies that found no difference between self-described bisexuals and closeted homosexuals.

From the article:

Researchers at Northwestern used similar techniques in a 2005 study and found that bisexual and homosexual men had the same responses. But more stringent screening of bisexual study participants this time around could be one reason for the different results. In the 2005 study, subjects were recruited with advertisements in gay or alternative lifestyle publications. This time, subjects were identified through websites appealing specifically to bisexuals.


Subjects were also required to have had sexual experiences with at least two people of each sex, in addition to a romantic relationship lasting at least three months with a person of each sex.
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What do you make of all this?
 
Me Myself

Me Myself

Back to my username
I have two bisexual friends. Aty first they only wanted to call themselves "bicurious" but phh I know them.

In any case, yeah, it´s obvious, no reason to beleive one cannot be atracted to both sexes I guess.
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
angellous_evangellous said:
Seems a bit late.

Like at least 2400 years.
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My thoughts, exactly. I am always puzzled by highly educated people who feel a need to confirm something that is fairly obvious to any village idiot, as Phil, so eloquently, likes to refer to them. Studies like this might be one reason so-called "anti-intellectual" sentiments are on the rise.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
YmirGF said:
My thoughts, exactly. I am always puzzled by highly educated people who feel a need to confirm something that is fairly obvious to any village idiot, as Phil, so eloquently, likes to refer to them. Studies like this might be one reason so-called "anti-intellectual" sentiments are on the rise.
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I'm always puzzled by folks who take it for granted they know everything. Especially in this case, when there were several earlier studies that suggested bisexuality was a myth.
 
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Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Sunstone said:
I'm always puzzled by folks who take it for granted they know everything. Especially in this case, when there were several earlier studies that suggested bisexuality was a myth.
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As a confirmed bisexual, my kneejerk reaction is to question such studies' validity. It's all too easy to let personal bias get in the way of objectivity.

What do proponents of said studies make of out and proud bisexuals? Hard to call us closet cases. :facepalm:
 
Me Myself

Me Myself

Back to my username
Sunstone said:
I'm always puzzled by folks who take it for granted they know everything. Especially in this case, when there were several earlier studies that suggested bisexuality was a myth.
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I find it kind of amuzing. Did this studies proposed the greeks to be a myth too? Most of them were bisexual. Had women, liked them, had sex with them, but still had sex with men too.

SO yeah, I thought it was a no brainer.
 
Nerthus

Nerthus

Wanderlust
Why bother doing research into this really? I think it was pretty obvious from the start.

Although, this is better than reading about the Christian psychiatrist who has decided that anyone who engages in a gay relationship is not psychologically healthy.
 
SageTree

SageTree

Spiritual Friend
Premium Member
Storm said:
As a confirmed bisexual, my kneejerk reaction is to question such studies' validity. It's all too easy to let personal bias get in the way of objectivity.

What do proponents of said studies make of out and proud bisexuals? Hard to call us closet cases. :facepalm:
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Congratulations... science just proved you were real......


:foryou:
 
A

Acim

Revelation all the time
IMO, if we did a test where subjects were stimulated physically by either sex, but not told which is which (as in they are blindfolded), it would demonstrate to me that gender doesn't actually matter, but that we only think it matters. In this way, we could establish heterosexuals might be homosexual or homosexual may be heterosexual. IMO, it would be obvious that we are all bisexual. And simply choose to be otherwise based on conscious preferences, not natural reactions to stimuli.
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
Nerthus said:
Why bother doing research into this really? I think it was pretty obvious from the start.
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Because the "obvious" is sometimes wrong. At one time it was obvious the Earth was flat. At one time it was obvious the Sun orbited the Earth. At one time it was obvious that large bodies of water, such as the ocean, are blue due to the reflections from the sky on their surface. At one time . . . .
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
Nerthus said:
I think this wasn't one of those cases where the obvious could possibly have been wrong.
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And I imagine the flat-Earthers and geocentrists thought the same of their beliefs. They certainly had better reason to do so then those who see the obviousness in this issue. All they had to do was say. "look outside, dummy."
 
Darkness

Darkness

Psychoanalyst/Marxist
Acim said:
IMO, if we did a test where subjects were stimulated physically by either sex, but not told which is which (as in they are blindfolded), it would demonstrate to me that gender doesn't actually matter, but that we only think it matters. In this way, we could establish heterosexuals might be homosexual or homosexual may be heterosexual. IMO, it would be obvious that we are all bisexual. And simply choose to be otherwise based on conscious preferences, not natural reactions to stimuli.
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Sexual orientation is more than merely reacting to stimuli. Heterosexual men often participate in gay porn, and rape victims can have orgasms. It is quite possible that I could get off to a guy giving me a blowjob, but I have no romantic/sexual desire for that to happen. I have a certain emotional connection to the idea of (sexual) intimacy with girls that is simply not present with boys. It is not fair to categorise that as a "conscious choice." I never made a choice to be a heterosexual.
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
Sunstone said:
I'm always puzzled by folks who take it for granted they know everything.
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Who claims to know everything, Phil? I certainly don't.

Sunstone said:
Especially in this case, when there were several earlier studies that suggested bisexuality was a myth.
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:facepalm: I guess we need 10 or 15 more studies then to make sure that this is not just a blip. What the heck, it's only money! America is awash in cash.
 
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