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rfmcdonaldPeople interested in male bisexuality might be interested by this Globe and Mail article by Dave McGinn.
The article concludes that, while cultural conditioning does play a role, the differences amount more to biological differences between the sexualities of men and women. Probably.
Thoughts?
Ask any straight woman how many of her female friends she's kissed and the answer is likely to be “one or two” if not “all of them.” Ask any straight guy how many of his dude buddies he's kissed and the answer is probably going to be, “Are you out of your mind?”
Katy Perry can sing “I kissed a girl and I liked it” without throwing her sexual identity into question. But as shown by the new movie Humpday, about two schlubby straight friends in their 30s who decide to sleep together for an art project, the same isn't true for men.
“There's no question female sexuality is much more malleable,” says Roy Baumeister, a professor of psychology at Florida State University. “The evidence for why is not nearly as clear cut.”
While women kiss other women for curiosity or fun, with men, well, not so much. Why don't boys experiment?
The article concludes that, while cultural conditioning does play a role, the differences amount more to biological differences between the sexualities of men and women. Probably.
“Men are more either/or when it comes to their attractions to men or women,” says Richard Lippa, a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton, and author of Gender, Nature and Nurture . “Women seem to have more shades of grey in their attractions.”
A survey of 3,600 people conducted by Mr. Lippa in 2006, published in the journal Psychological Science, found that heterosexual women are 27 times more likely than heterosexual men to express attraction to their own sex.
Some researchers believe we can chalk this difference up to cultural influence.
“We sort of set it up that the definition of masculinity is to not be gay,” says Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah. “That is not true of femininity at all.”
As a result, Dr. Diamond says, “there's a lot more cultural permission for women to experiment with other women, to talk about it, to joke about having a girl crush and stuff like that.”
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