Are women more likely to be bisexual than men
Women’s sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a “taboo” subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality of men and women.
In , approximately % of the population in the UK over the age of 16 identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. But when it came to bisexuality, there was a stark difference between men and women: women were much more likely to identify as bisexual compared to men (% of women compared to % of men).
Similarly, a study conducted at the University of Notre Dame found that women were three times more likely to identify as bisexual person. “Women have a greater probability than men of being attracted to both men and women,” said researcher Elizabeth McClintock, when discussing the results of the research. “This indicates that women’s sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men’s.”
The evidence overwhelmingly shows that women are far more likely to recognize as bisexual than men. But it’s hard to say why this might be. Could it be that women a
Women are more likely to identify as attracted to both genders – can research into sexual arousal tell us why?
Women’s sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a “taboo” subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality of men and women.
In , approximately % of the population in the UK over the age of 16 identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. But when it came to bisexuality, there was a stark difference between men and women: women were much more likely to identify as bisexual compared to men (% of women compared to % of men).
Similarly, a study conducted at the University of Notre Dame found that women were three times more likely to identify as bisexual. “Women have a greater probability than men of being attracted to both men and women,” said researcher Elizabeth McClintock, when discussing the results of the research. “This indicates that women’s sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men’s.”
The evidence overwhelmingly
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Bisexual
Women may be more "hetero-flexible," or be primarily attracted to men with some similar sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to boost their children with other women, a new study has proposed.
The hypothesis, published this April in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, suggests that more fluid female sexuality may have evolved because it benefited women's offspring. Some women who were raped or fathered children with absentee or deceased dads formed sexual relationships with other women, which may hold made it easier to raise children together, according to the theory.
"Being born with the ability to [be attracted to men and women] may have been beneficial to ancestral women," said investigate co-author Barry X. Kuhle, a psychologist at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. [ 5 Myths About Relationship style Debunked ]
Not everyone agrees with Kuhle's hypothesis, pointing to the lack of evidence to support it and suggesting perhaps women's more fluid sexual boundaries may just be a byproduct of some other evolutionary chan
Source: Ritch C Savin-Williams
A massive national, representative sample of US adults (NSFG Study) recently headlined more women (but not men) are identifying as bisexual and engaging in sex with both males and females. These upward trends among millennial young adults held across racial, ethnic, and social class groups. Although the authors can’t definitively explain the change across generations, they offer the following speculations:
“One prominent note of the gender revolution was that it is all right for women to do things only men could previously execute. This increased the instinct that it was permissible for women to employ in sex with women, even though doing so is still a violation of traditional gender conformity. Increased tolerance for lgbtq+ rights furthered the perception of permission The continued devaluation of the feminine, combined with the truth that same-sex relationships were still seen as gender-bending, meant that engaging in them entailed losing status for men"
Intriguing, in part, but highly doubtful that lesbians and men would be immune to these social change