News Flash! Bisexual men really DO exist!
And all it took was two studies and six years to prove it:
The finding is not likely to surprise bisexuals, who have long asserted that attraction often is not limited to one sex. But for many years the question of bisexuality has bedeviled scientists. Awidely publicized study published in 2005, also by researchers at Northwestern, reported that “with respect to sexual arousal and attraction, it remains to be shown that male bisexuality exists.
”That conclusion outraged bisexual men and women, who said it appeared to support a stereotype of bisexual men as closeted homosexuals.In the new study, published online in the journal Biological Psychology, the researchers relied on more stringent criteria for selecting participants.
To improve their chances of finding men aroused by women as well as men, the researchers recruited subjects from online venues specifically catering to bisexuals.They also required participants to have had sexual experiences with at least two people of each sex and a romantic relationship of at least three months with at least one person of each sex.Men in the 2005 study, on the other hand, were recruited through advertisements in gay-oriented and alternative publications and were identified as heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual based on responses to a standard questionnaire.In both studies, men watched videos of male and female same-sex intimacy while genital sensors monitored their erectile responses.
While the first study reported that the bisexuals generally resembled homosexuals in their responses, the new one finds that bisexual men responded to both the male and female videos, while gay and straight men in the study did not.
This is the problem with “studies”. Someone with academic background says, “Hey, I’m going to study….” proceeds to do so, releases their findings into the wild and presto! Because it’s a “study” it’s taken on it’s face, their methodology is never questioned and their statistical analysis is never fully vetted. Because it passes a board of their peers, nobody is really pushing back to hard to say, “Yeah, about that last finding you mentioned…” It’s all taken on it’s face, and then you have dim bulbs like Dan Savage (a “sex therapist” with absolutely NO credentials and an apparent case of Turret’s Syndrome), citing it as fact and using it as a crowbar in an already divided gay community.
Now, maybe this study can get a little traction. The first study was a crock, utterly flawed, and here’s the proof that bisexual men really do exist. Maybe now some holier-than-thou people can quit pronouncing them frustrated closet cases and move the hell on.
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