"No woman is totally straight"

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744903

AIBU to ask you whether this surprises you?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744903

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This is pretty old news, isn't it? Not that absolutely no woman is totally straight, but that all people are on a continuum somewhere between exclusively heterosexual and homosexual. Kinsey, 1960s, etc.

There's even a long questionnaire you can do online if you google - I was something like "mostly heterosexual but more than incidentally homosexual" or something.

The new bit is that most self-reported gay women are not bisexual, whereas all straight women are.

Why should anybody care?

General interest in the world/people?

Not at all surprised. I bet it'd be the same for men, if they measured physical responses to the right type of homosexual stimulus.

Also, Findo, this applies only to women. Men can be quite specific in their orientation.

No, not the same for men.

Personally I think its bollocks. How come that I've reached the age of 70 without having felt any interest in women sexually at all - zero, zilch, none whatsoever, not even a twinge?

It's because us women are so hot no one can resist us

I find that I really only care about the sexuality of those I'm shagging (and Richard Armitage, it turns out). The world would be a better place if it were like whether you like coriander; not really important.

I'm not surprised that women are once again being told who they are / how they feel.

I wonder if men have no responses due to homophobia towards gay men in society from a 'real man' patriarchal view, where as lesbians can be viewed as 'hot' by men and this trickles into what we see and believe to be sexually arousing.

Who doesn't like to look at nice pair of bosoms?!

I'm with SilverOldie. "The University of Essex study concluded that no woman is "totally straight" - NO woman? Bollocks.

Lol at Mrs TP.

Pretty small sample to be drawing that conclusion.

Meh, I disagree. Not even the least bit curious.

I also think it's a load of old cods-wallop.

I can definitely say Im straight.

Me, saucyjack. I have absolutely no interest in any part of a woman's body.

I remember reading a thread on here where a lot of straight women did confess that they had been attracted to a woman at some point.

Funnily enough you could argue that a study that shows, for example, gay and straight porn is more a test of empathy than sexuality. I'm not a gay man but Queer as Folk was hot. Not because of the actual stuff going on but because of the acting. THEY were clearly turned on.

Also, how are they testing 'arousal levels'? "Arousal' in psychology terms is not just sexual arousal.

I wonder to what extent this result is due to conditioning caused by an over abundance of sexualised images of women in our society, rather that it being something inherant in women?

I am totally straight. The idea of being intimate with a woman makes me feel queasy.

It's a dreadful study, based on a false premise that arousal automatically equates to desire for what is being depicted. Whereas it's far more complex than that.

I think it's bollox too - I can look at a picture of a naked woman & probably think 'wow' simply because the female naked body is quite pleasing to look at - but to actually have sex with a woman? - no thanks!