Random Scientific Study Suggests There's No Such Thing As "Straight" People (13 items)

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  (#9) Experiencing Arousal From Someone Of A Specific Gender Is Not The Same As Attraction

  Dr. Meredith Chivers, another researcher on the 2015 study, pointed out that just because they observed women aroused by sexual images of other women doesn't mean they have an actual sexual desire to be with them. "To conclude that women are bisexual on the basis of their sexual responding overlooks the complexity and multidimensionality of female sexuality," she said.

  However, she added the study may indicate that there "may be... greater potential for bisexuality in women than in men."
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  (#8) Learning About The Sexual Spectrum Helps People To Be Proud Of Their Attractions

  As society learns that it's perfectly normal for people to not be 100% straight or 100% gay, it will allow people to be more comfortable stating their true sexual identity and accepting others for doing the same. "I do see this loosening of the boundaries," said Dr. Savin-Williams. "It's probably a good thing, because it gives kids growing up more diversity, more options." He added, "Straight women and straight men feel much more comfortable than ever before in going into the realm of the other sex in terms of gender role and how they act."
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  (#2) The Study Showed That Gay-Identifying Women Are More Attracted To Women Than Straight Women Are To Men

  The 2015 study from Cornell University included 345 women who were shown videos of either attractive men or attractive women engaged in sexual acts. While both heterosexual-identifying and homosexual-identifying women in the study experienced some degree of arousal to the two genders, there was an ultimate difference. For the homosexual women in the group, they experienced arousal to their preferred gender (other women) 68% of the time. However, heterosexual women experienced arousal to their preferred gender (men) only 28% of the time.
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  (#5) For Years It Was Believed The Idea Of Being 'Mostly Straight' Only Applied To Women

  The Kinsey Scale introduced many to the concept of human sexuality as a spectrum, with many people not being completely straight or completely gay. However, there appeared to be an imbalance along gender lines when it came to people reporting themselves as "mostly straight." Dr. Savin-Williams (one of the researchers of the 2015 study) said:

  We've always recognized mostly straight women, that is, women who mostly are straight but if the right woman comes along, well maybe she'll try it out. We used to think that was only a female phenomenon.

  So while the 2015 study focused on women's sexuality aligned with pupil dilation and traditionally "masculine" stimuli, researchers acknowledged that a separate study needed to be conducted to observe sexual attraction in men to see if it matched up — a hypothesis Dr. Savin-Williams refers to as the "mostly straight male" idea.
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  (#1) A 2015 Study Said All Women Experience Some Attraction To More Than One Gender

  In 2015, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Essex studied the arousal of women when viewing sexually explicit material. In the study, researchers studied female-identifying volunteers and determined if they were experiencing arousal by observing eye dilation. The women were shown sexual stimuli, some featuring men and some featuring women. The result? All of the women, whether reporting to be gay, straight, or somewhere else on the spectrum, experienced some degree of attraction to both men and women. This indicated that individual women tend to range in their sexuality, at least when gauged on "male-typical sexual response" stimuli, on which the study was premised.
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  (#6) Fluid Sexuality Is Being More Widely Acknowledged

  In 2017, Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams published a book, "Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men." In the book, he observed a growing tendency of men to identify themselves not as completely straight, but as "mostly straight." Savin-Williams mentioned a poll that found, among men in the US age 18-24, that 6% said their sexual attraction was directed toward "mostly opposite sex."

  However, when these men were asked to identify as either straight, gay, or bi, about three-quarters of the representation identified themselves as straight. Savin-Williams said this indicated that these men felt the term "bisexual" implied more of an even split than what they experience in real life, so they chose straight, with potential caveats.

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