Are women more bisexual than men
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Bisexual
Women may be more "hetero-flexible," or be primarily attracted to men with some same sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women, a new study has proposed.
The hypothesis, published this April in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, suggests that more fluid female sexuality may have evolved because it benefited women's offspring. Some women who were raped or fathered children with absentee or deceased dads formed sexual relationships with other women, which may have made it easier to lift children together, according to the theory.
"Being born with the ability to [be attracted to men and women] may have been beneficial to ancestral women," said learn co-author Barry X. Kuhle, a psychologist at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. [ 5 Myths About Polyamory Debunked ]
Not everyone agrees with Kuhle's hypothesis, pointing to the lack of evidence to support it and suggesting perhaps women's more fluid sexual boundaries may just be a byproduct of some other evolutionary change. There may be no evolutionary reason for the hetero-flexibility, they say.
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Women are more likely to identify as attracted to both genders – can research into sexual arousal tell us why?
Women’s sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a “taboo” subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality of men and women.
In , approximately % of the population in the UK over the age of 16 identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. But when it came to bisexuality, there was a stark difference between men and women: women were much more likely to identify as bisexual compared to men (% of women compared to % of men).
Similarly, a study conducted at the University of Notre Dame found that women were three times more likely to identify as bisexual. “Women have a greater probability than men of being attracted to both men and women,” said researcher Elizabeth McClintock, when discussing the results of the research. “This indicates that women’s sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men’s.”
The evidence overwhelmingly shows that women are far more likely to identify as bisexual than men. But it’s hard to speak why this
No woman 'totally straight', learn says
Dr Rieger said it was not known why gay women were more often only aroused by their preferred sex, but he believes it may be to do with the amount of testosterone female babies receive in the womb.
It was achievable, he said, that women who experienced testosterone preliminary in pregnancy had sexual behaviours that were more similar to men, but this has not yet been proven.
He said tests showed similar behaviours occurring in monkeys.
Dr Rieger said the wider conclusions of the examine was that, while the majority of women identified as straight: "Our analyze shows that, when it comes to what turns them on they are usually bisexual or same-sex attracted, but never totally straight".
However, he added the analyze did not necessarily express women were repressing their true sexual preferences, but that their sexualities were simply more complex than men's.
"When it comes to straight women and sexual arousal there is such a disconnect between what a woman tells me and what her body does.
"It suggests that it's a different earth for women when it comes to their sexualities."
Source: Ritch C Savin-Williams
A massive national, representative sample of US adults (NSFG Study) recently headlined more women (but not men) are identifying as bisexual and engaging in sex with both males and females. These upward trends among millennial young adults held across racial, ethnic, and social class groups. Although the authors can’t definitively explain the change across generations, they offer the following speculations:
“One prominent letter of the gender revolution was that it is all right for women to do things only men could previously accomplish. This increased the instinct that it was permissible for women to hire in sex with women, even though doing so is still a violation of traditional gender conformity. Increased tolerance for homosexual rights furthered the perception of permission The continued devaluation of the feminine, combined with the proof that same-sex relationships were still seen as gender-bending, meant that engaging in them entailed losing status for men"
Intriguing, in part, but highly doubtful that lesbians and men would be immune to these social changes. And what about mostly unbent women and men? Let’s take a closer glance at several problems with t
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