Administrators FlyJ Posted March 13, 2018 Administrators Share Posted March 13, 2018 Rigid sexual orientations have defined the preference of men and women for decades; however, a new study is attempting to do away with strict definitions of sexuality. The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, argues that there’s no such thing as a “straight” man or woman. Rather, people operate on a spectrum. Researchers showed men and women different kinds of pornographic material. Rather than relying on self-reporting, the study looked at physiological responses to the sexual material. Namely pupil dilation, which is a sign of sexual arousal. The study found that women’s eyes dilated when they viewed a man and a woman being sexuality intimate, and when two women were sexually intimate. Lesbian are more aroused to their preferred sex than the other sex, a pattern normally seen in men. A similar phenomenon was seen in men. Talking to Broadly, study author Ritch C Savin-Williams, who is also the Director of Developmental Psychology at Cornell University, said: We show straight men a picture of a woman masturbating and they respond just like a straight guy, but then you also show them a guy masturbating and their eyes dilate a little bit. So we're actually able to show physiologically that all guys are not either gay, straight, or bi. He argues that though the idea of bisexuality as the norm is becoming more accepted when it comes to women, men are still struggling with patriarchal stigma. Savin-Williams has a point. There have been multiple studies done that conclude women are naturally bisexual, like this one by Dr Gerulf Rieger at the University of Essex. He did an identical study where he looked at pupil dilation in women who were shown videos of attractive men and women. Source 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators kimi Posted March 13, 2018 Moderators Share Posted March 13, 2018 Hmmm... interesting. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I call bullshit (in some aspects). Show me a picture of a naked woman and my pupils will not dilate anything. Even lesbians are not attracted to all women. Meanwhile this phenomena "We show straight men a picture of a woman masturbating and they respond just like a straight guy, but then you also show them a guy masturbating and their eyes dilate a little bit. So we're actually able to show physiologically that all guys are not either gay, straight, or bi" COULD simply be due to the fact that the men find the act of masturbating arousing as opposed to the sex doing the masturbating. They COULD simply be getting turned on by what he is doing and not by him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnighter Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 39 minutes ago, Hawken said: I call bullshit (in some aspects). Show me a picture of a naked woman and my pupils will not dilate anything. Even lesbians are not attracted to all women. Meanwhile this phenomena "We show straight men a picture of a woman masturbating and they respond just like a straight guy, but then you also show them a guy masturbating and their eyes dilate a little bit. So we're actually able to show physiologically that all guys are not either gay, straight, or bi" COULD simply be due to the fact that the men find the act of masturbating arousing as opposed to the sex doing the masturbating. They COULD simply be getting turned on by what he is doing and not by him. I absolutely agree with you. The conclusion drawn seems a bit reaching. They could get turned on watching the guy masturbate and remember the last time they masturbated. Also, problem with some research is that the sample size is usually so small which is not representative at all. I have become a skeptic regarding some researches when i found out that a lot of them could not be replicated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 5 hours ago, Midnighter said: I absolutely agree with you. The conclusion drawn seems a bit reaching. They could get turned on watching the guy masturbate and remember the last time they masturbated. Also, problem with some research is that the sample size is usually so small which is not representative at all. I have become a skeptic regarding some researches when i found out that a lot of them could not be replicated. Exactly, the conclusions of these experiments are always reaching and cannot be replicated.. Its things like this that make people say "we have a gay agenda". That been to convince the whole world that everybody is gay. Shit, if everybody is gay, I don't want to be gay 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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