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Do "straight" women exist?

Sheesh, didn't anyone question the methodology?

Using both eye tracking devices and direct measures of physiological sexual response, the study, which involved 345 women, found that straight women were strongly sexually aroused to videos of both attractive men and attractive women, even though they reported that they are only interested in men.
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And this method of measuring sexual attraction/arousal couldn't possibly have false positive results?

You know, that logical fallacy: people sexually aroused do X
does not mean all people doing X are sexually aroused.

Not buying it.
 
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I think it is mainly a question of definition.

Do "straight" people exist? Sure. I'm straight. I am certainly attracted to the opposite sex, and nothing else.

Could there never ever be a situation where I was finding a (physical) member of my own sex sexually interesting? .... Can't say for sure. It hasn't happened, but ...

Hans
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Sheesh, didn't anyone question the methodology?
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The whole thing looks like postmodern propaganda to me.

I wonder if they actually had to ask each participant to declare their gender. Some lesbians look exactly like men and may even use hormone therapy to increase that. This survey is for females only. I am a female. But you look just like a dude. Thank you, I guess it's working.
 
Belz... said:
You mean some men, right?
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Not sure.

I believe there heterosexual spectrum comprises of a little bit of pink in all of us. Some are gay, some bisexual, some straight that check out the odd bloke, to a small percentage that wouldn't admit to any gayness at all, but I'm betting it'd there.

There are plenty who fight the good fight against faggotry, but the number of them who turn up with rent boys encourages me to believe that "straight" is a completely flexible term. Someone, who in preferable circumstances would bonk a chick, but who in some exceptional circumstances, would do it with a guy.

Then fight to the death if the rumour ever got around. I knew a kid four or five years ago who died as a result of those exact circumstances.
 
The Atheist said:
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.
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I think this is something that gay people want to be true, but is not. Perhaps it helps them to feel less different than straight people because "everybody has the tendency".

Not all men in prison engage in gay sex and neither do all sailors out at sea. I found some old statistics that claim 2% of prison inmates have consensual gay sex. If you have stats to back up this idea then please provide. The OP does not suffice.

Google Link
 
mgidm86 said:
I think this is something that gay people want to be true, but is not. Perhaps it helps them to feel less different than straight people because "everybody has the tendency".
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I think it's two ways of looking at the same data. If you draw your "straight" bin large enough, you end up with the modern straight/bisexual/homosexual trichotomy. Draw the bins a different way, and you end up with the majority of people admitting that they've had some fleeting moment of attraction to someone of the same gender (see Ron White's discussion about how everyone is gay for a humorous and graphic illustration of this point). The reality is, we're all different. We all land somewhere on this spectrum.

That's what I mean when I say how we ask the question determines what the answer is: our interpretation of the data relies more on how we draw the bin boundaries than it does the actual data themselves.
 
Information Analyst said:
It could be said that women have been allowed to embrace bisexuality in a way that men are not - a male celebrity with another man is pretty much shoved into the "gay" box straight away.
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Either that or they excuse themselves from identifying as "bisexual" or "gay" by saying that, since they only like feminine, pretty or androgynous guys they are still straight.

Evidently you are only a "true homosexual/bisexual" if you are sexually attracted towards masculine men.
 
mgidm86 said:
I think this is something that gay people want to be true, but is not. Perhaps it helps them to feel less different than straight people because "everybody has the tendency".
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It could be that, or it could be that like other advanced primates, we are horny all the time and some people see that sex is not binary. A penis does not have to be placed in a vagina. Frot if fun, anal is funner - that kind of thing. I suspect most blokes wouldn't let themselves try it.

mgidm86 said:
Not all men in prison engage in gay sex and neither do all sailors out at sea. I found some old statistics that claim 2% of prison inmates have consensual gay sex. If you have stats to back up this idea then please provide.
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Well, I can find 2-4& coerced into gay sex in jails.

You'd like to think there was more consensual....

Gay guys claiming to have a very large number of sexual partners tends to make the 2% consensual number look ridiculously low.
 
Dinwar said:
I think it's two ways of looking at the same data. If you draw your "straight" bin large enough, you end up with the modern straight/bisexual/homosexual trichotomy. Draw the bins a different way, and you end up with the majority of people admitting that they've had some fleeting moment of attraction to someone of the same gender (see Ron White's discussion about how everyone is gay for a humorous and graphic illustration of this point). The reality is, we're all different. We all land somewhere on this spectrum.

That's what I mean when I say how we ask the question determines what the answer is: our interpretation of the data relies more on how we draw the bin boundaries than it does the actual data themselves.
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You can draw your 'bin' any way you want, I have never felt a sexual attraction to any woman ever. And this study is garbage because I can't be the only strictly straight woman on the planet.
 
The study forgot the "nonsexual" bin.

"Have you ever had a day or occasion when you didn't want to have sex with anyone regardless of their gender?"

If you answered yes, you are just like everyone else. You are nonsexual. Our findings show that humans are fundamentally nonsexual. Can I have my PhD now?
 
catsmate said:
The researchers concluded that no woman is "totally straight". Who do the forumites think? Accurate? Needs more research? Rubbish?
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Rubbish. Women also have a "physiological response" to images of animals mating. Does that mean they are all bestiality-oriented?

A "physiological response" alone doesn't make a person gay or straight or bisexual.
 
mgidm86 said:
I think this is something that gay people want to be true, but is not. Perhaps it helps them to feel less different than straight people because "everybody has the tendency".

Not all men in prison engage in gay sex and neither do all sailors out at sea. I found some old statistics that claim 2% of prison inmates have consensual gay sex. If you have stats to back up this idea then please provide. The OP does not suffice.

Google Link
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I'm pretty certain the statistics don't refer to people who "have engaged" in sex, but rather the ability to at one time or another feel some sort of sexual feeling toward someone of our own gender. It doesn't even have to be that I want to have sex with that person if I had the chance. I am in practice and most emotions quite straight, but there are women I've been attracted sexually to in some ways, but don't want to actually have sex with them. There are some men I've admired in a mix of ways, even if I didn't want to actually have sex with them either.
 
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