Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Clearly These Scientists Were Not Going To The Same College I Was At

Just in case you were wondering, scientists have discovered that bisexual men actually exist and are not just really drunk straight guys.

Plenty of people identify as bisexual, but scientists are still trying to figure out what that means in terms of physiological arousal and attraction.

A new study in the journal Biological Psychology claims to have at least shown that some men who say they're bisexual actually get aroused by both men and women. And that's a new result; a controversial 2005 study could not demonstrate bisexuality.

This study does find it, perhaps because of the way researchers recruited participants. The new research focuses on self-identified bisexual men who'd had a romantic relationship of at least three months with at least one person of each sex, and at least two sexual partners of each sex - much more specific criteria than previous research used.

"The fact that we found it, especially using this kind of methodology, confirms that men with bisexual arousal patterns and bisexual identity definitely exist," said Allen Rosenthal, lead study author and doctoral student at Northwestern University.

Or the scientists could have hung out on pretty much any college campus for a week and proven the theory a hell of a long time ago, but then again I went to a liberal arts school in one of those cities with street festivals where the folks have decided the street festivals were too touristy so they made super nerdy hipster hardcore arts festivals to drive the squares away and there are enough bed and breakfast places around to have gay and lesbian owned ones in their own rather broad category.

And this was back in the 90's after the Contract With America you could have proven bisexual men existed.  And I was a computer geek with the social skills of a plate of 3-day old stale french fries and still figured this out.

Sheesh.  Biological psychologists need to get out more.

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