Well, there must be something wrong with me, then. While I have no moral aversion to homosexuality, women-on-women porn is so repuslive to almost make me nauseous. When I see a women-on-women scene coming up, I fast forward. Not that I even watch that much porn, becuase even the men-on-women parts are shot exclusively for the man’s enjoyment. I am so not bisexual in any shape, form, or fashion. I have never even had a bisexual erotic dream.
Studies in the psychology field, unless things have changed drastically in the past two years since I was taught this, do not show, Muad’Dib. They observe. To say that a study SHOWS something means that it demonstrates that it is a fact. This study merely raises questions and posits an answer to another. It does not show much of anything finalized.
Upon further scrutiny, I see where you get your wording:
Unless I am very wrong, this strikes me as either a paraphrase for effect or someone who misspoke. The idea was emphasized and re-emphasized in the psych classes I took that involved studies that they do not prove/show anything. They observe something. Only when multiple studies have been done observing the same thing does the notion of “show” enter into anything.
It doesn’t say women are naturally bisexual. It said that arrousal is very different-a woman could be straight as straight can be, but sex is sex, and it turns her on.
Well, here’s more evidence to talk my girlfriend into a threesome. Come on honey, you can’t argue with science!
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The title of the thread was meant to be a little tounge-in-cheek.
Just tongue in cheek? no other orifices? seems rather tame.
Well then according to the study, you are obviously a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
I’m always a bit dubious about studies. I’d want to know whether they picked a good cross section of women or just the type that were visually stimulated. And how many women took part, was it 50 or 7000, it makes a difference. How exactly did they measure their arousal?
Having said that though, the study could reflect my own arousal patterns a little bit. I can be visually aroused by woman on woman stuff and I can also be visually stimulated by looking at men on men stuff, but I don’t think it really means a great deal in regards to my sexual orientation. Just because I’m visually affected by a picture or film, doesn’t necessarily mean I want to have that experience in real life or even be turned on by it if I did have it.
Although I’m heterosexual, I have had a lesbian experience and it didn’t really turn me on in the way that I thought it would judging by my reaction to visual things. Although bits of the experience were good, I kind of expected I would like it more than I did.
Um… a lot of lesbians are made nauseous by women-on-women porn of the type you mention.
“Those women are not really lesbians, and every dyke comic has a joke about this, but they all have ten long nails, and what do you call a lesbian with ten long nails? I call her a D&C.” - Maggie Cassella
My emphasis. I’d draw a distinction between arousal at a visual stimulus and actually seeking sex.
And I’d question the visually stimulated angle as well. I’m straight, but porn of any kind makes me queasy.
You know, a good flight (or a terrifying one) in an airplane can, uh, make me excited with >ahem< signs of arousal but that doesn’t mean I’m sexually aroused by airplanes or harbor a desire to shag a biplane. We humans don’t have the most efficient wiring system, and there’s all sorts of funny cross-links. Enough excitement of one sort can cause indications of excitement of another sort.
For that matter, I’m told that a digital prostate exam can cause an erection in a man, but that doesn’t mean he’s getting off on it or desires anal sex - what it means is that the right nerve(s) got nudged and triggered a reflex of some sort.
Frankly, I find woman-on-woman sex in pron videos borning. In fact, I find a LOT of porn to be boring and unimaginative (I guess I’m weird in preferring a plot in a movie…) It’s a turn OFF, not a turn on, at least for me.
lorinada’s post could have been from me - I feel exactly the same way.
Not true at all. I’m straight, and never had and never will have interest in another woman.
“Since most women seem capable of sexual arousal to both sexes, why do they choose one or the other?” Bailey asked. “Probably for reasons other than sexual arousal.”
Maybe I’m missing something, but since gay and bi-sexual MEN exist, how is this ablity to be aroused by either gender, you know, unique? Or are we to believe that men engaging in homosexual sex are really thinking about Mary-anne or Ginger, instead of their lover?
And what about women, like myself, who are totally turned off by the thought of two women kissing, groping etc, (frankly, I liked Willow better before she met Tara) but find the thought of two men doing so kind of interesting? (yay for the Dawson’s Creek finale!) Is that a case of even more differently made-up brain chemistry, then?
The idea is that even women who identify as straight have the ability - or a greater ability than men - to be aroused by their own sex.
Y’know, I find it odd whenever someone proclaims something opposite their sexual preference makes them ill/nauseous/etc.
How secure is someone who automatically proclaims that.
I’m gay, but the thought of having sex with a woman is neutral not nauseating.
Methinks you’re protesting too much. Maybe you’re not really that security in your security in your sexuality! :rolleyes: 
I hear what you are saying, Mockingbird, but I’m not so sure myself. There has got to be a range, no? For you, hetero-sex is neutral. For others it may be really positive, or really negative. Fill in all points in-between.
I understand the whole “Methinks the lady doth protest too much” thing, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider that feeling “odd” exactly.
Meh…just MHO.
I’m with Mockingbird. The idea of a sexual encounter with a woman doesn’t turn me off–I’m just neutral about it. If my SO wanted to try a threesome with another female, I’d be willing to give it a shot–I’d perfer it with another man, though, but he’d never try that!
The same holds with girl on girl porn–it just does nothing for me. Neither does the porn with one woman by herself. I don’t find it icky, it just doesn’t register for me on the moisture scale at all.