why do straight guys find girl-on-girl action hot, almost universally?

In My Humble Opinion
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So last night I watched David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (one of the very few in his ouevre that I hadn’t seen yet).

There’s a pretty steamy scene between Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring (granted, Lynch being seated between them in this pic is not the sexiest thing in the world :smack:).

I have long wondered: Why are straight guys almost universally rendered instantly horny–mere babbling, salivating primates, ruled only by their erections–by the idea or image of two hot (read: feminine) women going at it with each other? Is there any research on this? Did Kinsey or Masters & Johnson address the question?

I don’t think evolutionary psychology suffices to explain this phenomenon. (I’m sure Desmond Morris has his hypotheses, but I’m uninterested in them, as his ideas strike me as pretty speculative.) What about traditional psychology or sociology?

Here’s my amateur, unsupported hypothesis:

To men, women are sex objects (they’re not “just” objects, of course, but stick with me here for a minute). So when a woman is “sexual” enough, when she’s either aroused enough, curious enough, or sufficiently libertine to make out with and/or have sex with another woman, her sexuality is enhanced in the eyes of the male beholder, exponentially. And because there is not one but two women involved in the act, it’s doubly exciting. Not just doubly/linearly, but maybe even exponentially.

So I think it all reduces to a simple enhancement of perceived sexuality…lesbian acts (again, we’re talking Hollywood lesbians, not the stereotypical flannel-wearing, Indigo-Girls-Lilith-Fair, buzzcut dyke, garden-variety lesbians, here) are seen by men as consummately sexual, and send the message to a male viewer that the woman/women is/are HIGHLY-CHARGED sexual being(s), even if their availability for heterosexual coupling is questionable at best.

What do y’all think?

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I have one other idea:

Maybe it’s learned context. Maybe a lot of guys’ fist exposure to lipstick lesbian scenarios is in pornography, so the excitement at the stimulus is a learned behavior (being associated with the arousal brought on by pornography)?

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For me, yes, this is it.

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I like drinking beer. You know what is better than one beer? Two beers. It’s pretty much that simple.

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Like the poster above, I’m a little surprised this question even needs to be asked.

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And two beers giving each other head is even hotter.

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Because there’s twice as much to look at.

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I’ve asked this questions on here before and the basic answer seems to be, because there’s two of them.

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You have reduced my academic inquiry to foolishness. :smiley:

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My theory is there’s all that female nudity on display without the distraction/potential rivalry of another guy. It’s easy for me to mentally impose myself into the scenario.

But how universal is this? You can address this while I’m in my bunk.

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You’ve got twice as much of the stuff you want to look at, and none of the stuff you don’t. Pretty simple.

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I find faux-lesbian action intensely boring. I’m not entirely sure why. It may have something to do with a few dull-three ways in my youth; it may be that I know a lot of lesbians and am pretty de-sensitized to the eroticism of their kissing, even if they’re hot.

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Dude, there’s TWO.

What’s so complicated about that?

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I dunno, I don’t think it’s that simple. I think there’s something about the female homosexuality itself that is alluring.

Consider, for example, a scenario–examples from the corpus of pornography abound [please pardon the unintentional pun triggered by the word corpus]–in which two women are involved in the same sexual scenario, but not with each other. I don’t know about other guys, but that wouldn’t have nearly the same titillating effect on me.

In other words, two women merely being in the same “eyeful” is not at all to me erotically equivalent to two women lavishing erotic affection on each other. Here’s my point, expressed semi-mathematically:

1 woman in an erotic act + 1 woman in a different erotic act = 2 sexy women

1 woman in an erotic act WITH another woman in the same act, giving each other affection = :D:eek::D:eek::stuck_out_tongue:

Others?

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Like most of the others, this pretty much sums it up. I just want to add that when it comes to porn, the big turn-on for me is seeing a woman get off. I have no interest in seeing some dude or his junk getting in the way. Thus, I only watch solo scenes and lesbian porn. And with the latter, it’s two-for-the-price-of-one, a win-win situation, and all that.

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Nice Freudian typo. :smiley:

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I think this is most of it.

I think part of what makes it so awesome to guys is that we get to see 2 women who also see women as sex objects. The confirmation of our own desires and the realization that somehow there might be women who see this important aspect of life (sexuality) the same way we guys do and who will act in the same we guys want to, is just beyond cool and throws our poor primitive brains into YES ME WANT!!! mode, complete with chest thumping and bare-teeth growling if necessary (or requested).

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Because there are two. Note this only applies to women integers. One and a half women is not sexy, nor is that chick with three boobs from Total Recall.

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Beats me. This male finds two frisky and scantily clad young ladies a pleasant sight, sure, but the idea that they are really only interested in each other more spoils it than enhances it.

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Never got the attraction to Lesbian sex. Just doesn’t do anything for me. OK, someone revoke my Man Card! :smiley: