"No Woman Is Totally Straight", Says New Study From The University of Essex.

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Gay women tend to be exclusively sexually attracted to women, while straight women are more likely to be aroused by both sexes, a study says.

Researchers asked 345 women about their sexual preferences and compared these with their arousal levels when shown videos of attractive men and women.

They found 28% of straight women were mostly aroused by their preferred sex, compared with 68% of gay women.

The University of Essex study concluded that no woman is "totally straight".

Study findings 'amazing'

The new study, led by Dr Gerulf Rieger from the University of Essex and published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, measured the arousal of women using eye tracking devices and direct measures of physiological sexual response.

Previous studies had already suggested that straight women were aroused by both sexes when tested, but researchers had never looked at whether the same was true for gay women.

Dr Rieger said the study's conclusion that women who identified as being completely gay were much more aroused by their preferred sex was "amazing".

He said their sexual arousal patterns were much more similar to men, whose responses tend to very accurately mirror their stated sexual preferences.

Dr Rieger said: "In the past we thought it was true of all women that they were aroused by both sexes. The fact that it appears this is not the case is amazing."

'More complex'

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 possible, he said, that women who experienced testosterone early 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 study was that, while the majority of women identified as straight: "Our research shows that, when it comes to what turns them on they are usually bisexual or gay, but never totally straight".

However, he added the research did not necessarily mean 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 world for women when it comes to their sexualities."


http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34744903

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

I think all women are 2 drinks away from grabbing titties and licking box.

 

[Lovestorm]

 

[oceanghil]

Wonder if Hillary would consider this study a microaggression.

 

[TheStruggle]

Even women loves tits, so stop making us feel bad for liking them too

 

[Kardashians]

lol, do you even know how badly studies like this piss off gay women
prolly not, bc u dont have tumblr
but trust me bruh
they get so pissy about it xD

 

[Slobodan]

I'm no statistician but isn't 345 too small a sample size?

 

[rockylion]

If it is Essex, England, well just Google Essex girls, they skanky

 

[Rev]

This actually did make me laugh out loud.

 

[JBSchroeds]

I'm no statistician but isn't 345 too small a sample size?

Like most things in life: it depends. Things like the complexity of the conclusion, the strength of the response, and how representative the sample is of the population will all change the requirements. I'm not well versed enough in the statistical details (and haven't read the nuts-and-bolts of the study) to say one way or another, but my gut reaction is that a sample of that size is enough to say "this could very well be true, lets look at it in more detail".

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

women are slutty? who knew!

 

[korean blood]

 

[Rjay]

Unfortunately my girlfriend would vehemently disagree with this, as would many others.

 

[Iroh]

In before $uperman says he knew it all along.

Like most things in life: it depends. Things like the complexity of the conclusion, the strength of the response, and how representative the sample is of the population will all change the requirements. I'm not well versed enough in the statistical details (and haven't read the nuts-and-bolts of the study) to say one way or another, but my gut reaction is that a sample of that size is enough to say "this could very well be true, lets look at it in more detail".

In other words, more research is needed before drawimg that conclusion. This conclusion should still be a hypothesis. Sample size is too small or this conclusion at the very least is very unfortunately worded, at worst the researcher is a total can. What about asexual women for example? It's ridiculous to suggest that there are no exceptions in a field that id filled with exceptions, based on a microscopically scaled test about a complete gender.

Maybe the article writer is to blame though.

 

[Mr Jay]

Excellent.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I say legalize prostitution and let the ladies marry each other. Win/win for us men.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

In before $uperman says he knew it all along.



In other words, more research is needed before drawimg that conclusion. This conclusion should still be a hypothesis. Sample size is too small or this conclusion at the very least is very unfortunately worded, at worst the researcher is a total can. What about asexual women for example? It's ridiculous to suggest that there are no exceptions in a field that id filled with exceptions, based on a microscopically scaled test about a complete gender.

Maybe the article writer is to blame though.

I feel like homosexual women have a strong pressure to claim they're under no circumstance attracted to men while the inverse of that pressure is no longer strongly attached to heterosexual women.

 

[Iroh]

I feel like homosexual women have a strong pressure to claim they're under no circumstance attracted to men while the inverse of that pressure is no longer strongly attached to heterosexual women.

Yeah, apparently the women's gay club is pretty exclusive. No boys allowed.

Though the research is not only about their claim but also their reaction. But depending the circumstances of the test those reaction could be habitually conditioned to support their claim.

 

[theskza]

I'm not surprised. Women are so damn hot.

 

[JBSchroeds]

In other words, more research is needed before drawimg that conclusion. This conclusion should still be a hypothesis. Sample size is too small or this conclusion at the very least is very unfortunately worded, at worst the researcher is a total can. What about asexual women for example? It's ridiculous to suggest that there are no exceptions in a field that id filled with exceptions, based on a microscopically scaled test about a complete gender.

Maybe the article writer is to blame though.

Science reporting is, in general, dog shit. The direct quotes from the scientist seem less definitive. His research and claims are specifically about physiological arousal but the tone of the article seems to want to downplay that scope and make wider claims.

Anyways, here's a depressingly accurate comic about how this thing often goes: