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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html

Summary? Bisexuality may not exist in men; may be the norm in women. At the end, a researcher notes that a woman may identify as a lesbian, but if the pizza guy is really hot, what are you going to do?

Fear not, heterosexual universe, the premise for all your porn films remains intact.

*bangs head on handy objects*



To the Editor,

In "Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited" testing male sexual interest through responsiveness to pornography is presented as something other than the obvious. A bisexual man may be uninterested in porn solely featuring women because it lacks an object of identification, or he might just find porn and its narrow range of bodies uninteresting. There are too many variables for the study as presented to have meaning.

My jaw dropped when Dr. Diamond declared, "[A woman] may be mostly interested in women but, hey, the guy who delivers the pizza is really hot…." I had to wonder if her study was porn industry sponsored.

Perhaps women are socially rewarded for bisexuality or men face pressure to have a non-fluid sexual identity. These studies ignore the obvious societal context of sex, which seems absurd, misleading and unhelpful in the midst of the current culture wars.


I have a strong feeling they will publish it, and oh, man, that's gonna be fun when my parents call me. La!

Date: 2005-07-05 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askeladden.livejournal.com
Fag porn is hot. Good production values, enthusiastic participants.
Het-made "lesbian" porn is skanky. Gross tongue action, unrealistic sex, bored actors.

So who wouldn't get a bone for the former and not the latter? Lord knows I do. I love women's bodies and have never been turned on by a man's. Porn isn't about physical attraction. It's about the inherent hotness of the sex act. That a third of the group couldn't care less should have tipped off the researchers to the sketchiness of their variables.

Date: 2005-07-05 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
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