"No woman is totally straight"

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

AIBU to ask you whether this surprises you?

Poorly designed study. Small sample size. (Male?) researchers telling women what our sexualies 'really' are. A complete load of nonsense.

everybody likes a bosom for a pillow...

I find women attractive but, don't want to sleep with them?

I think it's a bit offensive.

Why is it OK to tell straight women they're not really straight but not acceptable to tell a gay or lesbian person they're not really gay or lesbian?

If a woman says she's straight, she's straight. That should be respected and people shouldn't attempt to 'prove' her wrong with a study.

I have read something like this before and have really thought about it but I can honestly say I do not find women at all sexually attractive. I never fantasise about women. I have never been attracted to a woman. I find the idea of women together a turn off if I think about it.

I have no objection to anyone loving anyone - lucky if it happens would be my thought- but I am absolutely straight.

I don't think that's true for everyone even though it is for myself.. I think it's about the same as men. Look how many straight men have sex with men in prison. I've heard loads of stories of straight teenage mates having oral sex together etc.

Call me homophobic if you wish, but i wonder who pays for such bullshit studies and who are they sampling. The rainbow brigade?
Seriously... I have no interest in other women sexually. Zero at al. But according to such studies, straight people may soon become an anomaly.

I think if they hooked me up to monitoring equipment and showed me various types of porn I would indeed show signs of heavier breathing and raised blood pressure. It's called embarrassment.

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I think in certain circumstances with the right people we would and could all have the potential to love and therefore shag someone of the same sex.

I totally disagree, the idea of having sex with a woman is repugnant to me and it would never happen.

Well I am definitely 100% straight. I have never felt any attraction to a woman or desire to be with one.

There's a fair bit of research now showing that women's sexuality tends to be more fluid, men's very fixed.

Doesn't make every woman bi, though.

Nataleejah, your post about the 'rainbow brigade' is uncalled for. There's quite enough lesbians already without us needing to mount recruitment campaigns.

Nataleejah This member of the 'rainbow brigade' thought the study was stupid and sexist.

Ahem All those lusting after Mr. Armitage, think you may be barking up the wrong tree there as he has a rather beautiful boyfriend of his own what I would give to see that sex tape

Nope. This woman is straight. Vaginas freak me out. I would not be touching someone else's. I can appreciate the female figure and do enjoy looking at beautiful women, but I wouldn't ever get sexual with them.

But... that said, women have been shown to have an easier time being aroused. They get aroused watching two bonobo monkeys bump uglies. That doesn't mean women are all into bestiality, just that we're genetically hard wired to get our bodies ready easier than men would.

Evolutionary speaking, this makes sense considering dry sex can injure the vagina and women have historically had no say when they would be having sex.

I'm with mrs TP. I don't like coriander but I don't care if anyone else does

From my point of view, Im really sorry but i dont agree. Sorry woman are friends, anything else is not right for me. I just love the male mascular smell (you know what i mean) and my dh hugging me.

it also occurs to me that anyone telling a lesbian 'go on, you never know, give it a try' would be justifiably told where to go.

who cares, anyway? Someone's sexuality is utterly irrelevant unless you want to have sex with them, when it needs to match yours for it to be a possible. Otherwise it is totally uninteresting.

There may well be a spectrum of sexuality but some people are at either end, not somewhere along the middle. I had a gay friend (male) years ago and we were talking about our inability to fathom how anyone could possible find any woman sexy and that is because he is 100% gay and I (female) am 100% straight. It's ridiculous to say that no woman is completely straight. I know that I am.

"From my point of view, Im really sorry but i dont agree. Sorry woman are friends,"

Why did you feel the need to apologise twice for saying what you think?

But, but, I love coriander, and yet still consider myself straight

Gotta love an academic and the need to put everything and everybody in a tidy box.

"All those lusting after Mr. Armitage, think you may be barking up the wrong tree there as he has a rather beautiful boyfriend of his own"

Well, it's not as if that was the only thing stopping us getting it together.

I'm not sure I'm 100% straight but I don't think I'd act on any attraction to a woman. Sometimes I look at a woman and think "you really are gorgeous". Of course that could just be an aesthetic thing. What I would never, ever do is tell somebody else that of course they must be straight/ bi/ gay. That's their business. How would I know how they feel?

I'm with the explanation that women are identifying themselves with the naked woman rather than wanting to shag her because as others have said the objectification of women = sex and we are conditioned to react in that way. I am actually bi though!

chief you are quite right, the only thing stopping Richard Armitage from throwing himself at me is his love for cock.

I would also pay A LOT to see that sex tape

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

Well, indeed!

I don't understand the angst though OP, nobody is actually going to make you sleep with another woman to prove their point, so chill your boots!

I would describe myself as straight, but..... the odd little fantasy certainly helps things along the way, so to speak.

I saw this and i wonder if it is due to the fact that the female body is so sexualised in our culture. Far more so than men. It cant really be much of a surprise that most people find women attractive when we are bombarded every single day with how sexy this or that woman is. We're conditioned to think of women as sexually attractive.

As far as I can see, their research shows that gay, bi- and totally straight women's pupils dilate in response to sexual images.

Anything else is a stretch of the data.