Weitzman questions both the study methods and Rieger's interpretation of the data. The pattern is that they have this object specificity - it does not change." Critics Question Results They have an object of their sexual desire and go for that. "All those who didn't look like gay men looked like heterosexual men: They got aroused to women. "The majority of bisexual men got aroused to men and only to men," Rieger says. Heterosexual men said they were aroused by the female/female porn - and their genital measurements agreed.īisexual men said they were turned on by both sets of videos - but their genitals responded to one or the other, not to both.
Homosexual men said they were aroused by the male/male porn but not the female/female porn. Their genital arousal was measured by an elastic device attached to their penises. The men indicated how aroused they felt by moving a lever up or back. The sex films depicted either men having sex with men or women having sex with women. The men viewed an 11-minute nonsexual film, followed by several two-minute sexual films and another neutral film. Nine of the heterosexual men, 11 of the bisexual men, and 13 of the homosexual men did not become genitally aroused by the videos and were dropped from the final analysis. The current study, reported in the current issue of Psychological Science, enrolled 30 heterosexual men, 33 bisexual men, and 38 homosexual men. That's because the genitals of women participating in the study became aroused when they watched porn, regardless of whether it featured men or women. They concluded that women - whether they identify themselves as homosexual or heterosexual - have bisexual arousal patterns. Last year, Bailey, Rieger, and others published a study in which they measured female sexual arousal. His 2003 book on male-to-female transsexuals, The Man Who Would Be Queen, is still under attack from some in the transgendered community. "Bisexuality clearly exists." Women From Venus and Mars, Men From Venus or Marsīailey's sexuality research tends to draw fire. "Sexual response is not everything we think of when we think of sexual orientation," Rodriguez Rust tells WebMD. She says a person's sexual orientation is not determined merely by genital arousal. Sexologist Paula Rodriguez Rust, PhD, is the editor of the 1999 book Bisexuality in the United States. It goes on the old stereotype that men think with their. "This study perpetuates the idea that men are studs, that they go with whatever turns them on. "The whole point of sexual identity is it is a validation of who you are," Kritzer tells WebMD. Identity, she says, comes from above the ears, not below the belt. Rieger and Bailey are looking in the wrong place for men's sexual identities, says Sheeri Kritzer, a Bisexual Resource Center board member. There are so many men who say - and demonstrate - that they love men and love women and are happy with it." "Really, there are so many bisexual men out there. "I have seen in my practice very, very, very many men who are bisexual," Weitzman tells WebMD.
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That conclusion doesn't fit with the experience of San Francisco psychologist Geri Weitzman, PhD, who runs a web site listing bisexual-friendly professional services. "In men, there is no good evidence that something like a true bisexual attraction is out there." "We used measures of sexual arousal to explain true sexual feeling," Rieger tells WebMD. Gerulf Rieger, a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, conducted the study with psychology professor J. But a device attached to their genitals told another story. In the study, bisexual men reported being sexually aroused by erotic videos of both men and women. 30, 2005 - Bisexual men aren't fully bisexual, a controversial study suggests.