Women are bisexual, gay, and straight

Women’s sexuality (bisexual, homosexual, etc) has been a hot topic in the media recently thanks to new research that shows women’s physical arousal responses tend to be indiscriminate of heterosexual vs homosexual activity. As SheKnows.com points out, an increasing awareness of sexual fluidity in female sexuality may be caused by women feeling more empowered to express their sexual attraction.

As media consumers we have to also recognize that studies are sometimes misinterpreted. And there are times when generalizations about women’s sexuality drive headlines. Meredith Chivers, who is being credited with “women are either bisexual or gay but never straight,” never said that in her research. She discovered that male and female sexual turn ons are different but did not want to define orientation in her studies. Read more here: The world’s most misunderstood sexologist.

What she found was that everything turns women on, seeing men having sex with men, women with women, and even monkeys with monkeys. The interesting point in the study was when the women identified that they were only aroused by the observations that matched their own self described sexual orientation.

Straight women, she claims, are turned on by everything. There is a fluidity to women’s sexuality, but they are turned on by what they say they are turned on by and when. Nothing new there.

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