A group of researchers at Northwestern University is reporting that men who identify themselves as bisexual are indeed sexually aroused by both women and men. The new report is notable, in part, because the same research group had earlier challenged the very existence of male bisexuality, reporting in 2005 that many men who said they were bisexual had arousal patterns more typical of homosexual men.
The researchers essentially repeated the earlier experiment, this time using different criteria to select self-identified bisexuals, and found they had a pattern of sexual responsiveness that differed from homosexual or heterosexual men. As David Tuller reports in today’s Science Times:
“Someone who is bisexual might say, ‘Well, duh!’” said Allen Rosenthal, the lead author of the new Northwestern study and a graduate student in psychology at the university. “But this will be validating to a lot of bisexual men who had heard about the earlier work and felt that scientists weren’t getting them.”
The findings are consistent with another recent report, from researchers at Indiana State University and the Kinsey Institute, that also found a distinctive pattern of arousal, as well as subjective response, among bisexual men. To learn more, read the full article, “No Surprise for Bisexual Men: Report Indicates They Exist,” and please join the discussion below.
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