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Do "straight" women exist?

Tiktaalik said:
I am a woman. I am not attracted to, and have never been attracted to, other women. I can stir up no interest in it whatever. I do not enjoy female-on-female porn. I have never had a fantasy or dream about sexual activity with another woman.

Anecdotal, I know, but there you go. I seem to be about as far to the hetero side of the spectrum as one can get.
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The survey must contain women just like you who are thoroughly heterosexual. When they say that the "average woman" is bisexual they aren't talking about people they are talking about statistical results. In order to even arrive at an "average" they require women to be at both ends of the spectrum. IOW, the survey had to include fully straight women or else there would be no average. But then they conclude that there are no straight women.

Though the study does reveal some things its conclusion is wildly misleading and false.
 
This is a problem with the "straight/bi/gay" way of looking at human sexuality (well, one anyway)--it robs us of nuance in our views.

I've been attracted to men. I'm man enough to admit that I had a crush on a guy in college, and flirted with another in grad school. That said, the overwhelming majority of folks I would even consider as partners in a sexual relationship are women. Does that make me gay? Bisexual? I'd say no; I've never even kissed a guy. On a scale of -100 to 100, -100 being straight and 100 being gay, I'm about a -80.

Once you stop looking at it as discrete bins and start looking at it as scale where you can land anywhere along the scale, the question in the OP becomes moot.

(The reason I picked -100 and 100 is that asexuals would be 0, and this allows us to discuss other aspects of human sexuality. The lack of such discussions is the other gaping hole in our cultural understanding of the topic. These numbers are off the top of my head a bit more thought should result in a better model.)
 
Tiktaalik said:
I am a woman. I am not attracted to, and have never been attracted to, other women. I can stir up no interest in it whatever......
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I chatted with my wife about this some while back, and she is exactly the same. She had a gay room-mate at uni, who tried to interest her, but the idea of sex, or any form of intimacy, with other women was deeply uninteresting to her. So, there, you have my all-but-useless piece of anecdotal evidence, one data point, to throw into the mix.
 
Tiktaalik said:
Anecdotal, I know, but there you go.
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MikeG said:
So, there, you have my all-but-useless piece of anecdotal evidence, one data point, to throw into the mix.
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You guys talk like your "anecdotes" are less than meaningful in the face of this "scientific study". But the study had to use the same kind of "anecdotal" self-assessments of the participants.

Are there straight women? Yes.
Is there a study that says there are no straight women? Yes.
 
Thread will not work unless there are some pictures to better illustrate what this "woman on woman attraction" means.
 
Dinwar said:
Again, we need to question whether how we're asking the question is affecting our answers. I think it is.
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I'm not sure that that is the problem with this study. It looks to me like they took a statistical average and went ahead and said that all women are the average.
 
MikeG said:
I chatted with my wife about this some while back, and she is exactly the same. She had a gay room-mate at uni, who tried to interest her, but the idea of sex, or any form of intimacy, with other women was deeply uninteresting to her. So, there, you have my all-but-useless piece of anecdotal evidence, one data point, to throw into the mix.
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I'm sure she said that...
 
Darat said:
Not much to do! If only. If anything it would be the hunting parties that had long times without anything to do.
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Agreed. That gather part of hunter-gathering is likely more time consuming than some people would think. No agriculture means getting at whatever nature leaves lying around. As the year goes by the concentration and distance between useful food items might get a bit on the long side.

The hunters probably also had to do their part in gathering as well. IIRC an analysis of bones found in a pre-historic waste pile were mostly from rabbits. I suspect there was more trapping than hunting going on in a lot of places.
 
I am not and never have been sexually attracted to women. Why is this even a question? Men's fantasy maybe? :p
 
Here's my bit of anecdotal evidence:

My wife and I were at a gathering taking place in a campground one evening. We joined some friends around a picnic table, including one woman we hadn't met. The woman was somewhat drunk. She was introduced to me and my wife, and commented how beautiful my wife was. She actually made a few comments about my wife's good looks. And then she turned to me and said, "You must be incredibly happy every time she goes to bed with you." I nodded, and agreed that, yes, it was kind of cool.

So, how does that relate to this study?

I'm fairly confident that if the proper electrodes were attached to the proper places, that woman would have registered positive on the sexual arousal equipment. Does that mean she was not straight? That she was attracted to my wife? I don't think it means that at all. I think what she was imagining was the reaction that men have toward women who looked like my wife. In other words, I think seeing beautiful women makes women think about horny men. The fact that they become aroused when viewing attractive women doesn't mean that they are attracted to those women.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
I had a very simple explanation of why men like "lesbian" videos. I just can't post it here.
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I can post my simple explanation: we agree with both of them.

Meadmaker said:
I think seeing beautiful women makes women think about horny men. The fact that they become aroused when viewing attractive women doesn't mean that they are attracted to those women.
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On a more serious note, this is a very good point: arousal isn't the same as attraction.
 
William Parcher said:
I'm not sure that that is the problem with this study. It looks to me like they took a statistical average and went ahead and said that all women are the average.
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Yup. It's the same logic that says nine women can produce a baby in one month.
 
psionl0 said:
Why limit this question to just women?

I'm sure that one could just as reasonably ask, "Do 'straight' men exist?"
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Only when they lock away their gay tendencies.

When there are no females, men are quite happy to indulge in gay sex, From lonely cowboys to prison inmates to men on long sea trips, any old orifice will do.

It seems pretty clear to me that all humans being honest with themselves are a little bit pink rainbow in the middle.
 
William Parcher said:
I'm not sure that that is the problem with this study. It looks to me like they took a statistical average and went ahead and said that all women are the average.
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Possibly; I've not read the study. I was commenting more on the comments in this thread. Our perspectives on this issue are very clearly coloring our understanding of the system, in ways that are very problematic.
 
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