An odd question for bi guys...

I just got a hammer to the knee looking at mychems picture. Nice eye

 

is gay or bisexual active by visual stimuli? This is like saying if you have this brain wave your a fag? .....Well we will soon have the technology to find out if your gay even if your not aware that we are monitoring this wave.... and we'll kill you... how fucking gay is that.... nice that these subjects let the computer target the wave....stupid guinee pigs. fell right into the machine.... TRAP for killing homosexuals...

 

Motherlovebone (good band), I don't think they're saying guys can't be bisexual. (That would be awfully foolish of them, since there's abundant evidence everywhere that guys can be plenty bisexual...) What I got out of it is that guys who are straight or gay respond only to straight or gay porn. I don't think they dealt with bisexuality either way.

 

No im pretty sure they did deal with bisexuals. Men who said they were bisexual in reality only responded to one sex or the other.

There is also another study that shows "straight" guys who are largely homophobic are more aroused watching gay porn. (think Larry Craig) Not that its relevant, just another interesting study.

 

haha but actually they weren't studying to determine whether the people were homosexuals or not, they were measuring their arousal (penis movement, heartbeat, etc..) in response to different stimuli. It does suck for the self identified straight guy who scores gay gay gay...He probably wishes he never got involved in that study.

 

Bone, the article I posted said nothing whatsoever about male bisexuals. I checked again just to be sure. Maybe you read a different article, which I would be interested in.

 

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/511828

Im pretty sure this is the survey the original poster was referring to..

 

But Im pretty sure the above study is full of shit. I tend to agree with its critics.

 

Well, wow! I stand corrected! Thank you very much, Bone. I appreciate your digging it up for me.

I'm going to paste part of the article here, for people who're too lazy to register on that site - but you're right, this is a different study and its authors clearly say that men don't appear capable of bisexuality.

I'm also pasting some responses from sensible people who point out that a) the sample size is miniscule; b) the researchers threw out subjects who didn't react the way they were supposed to and c) the researches also completely misinterpreted the data. Nice work, you assholes.

I will say that this makes me wish I could be a guy for a week even more. I would love to know what goes on in your weird little heads. For all I know you all crave cock and every single "straight" guy in the world is lying. lol

Here's the excerpt:

Last year, Bailey, Rieger, and others published a study in which they measured female sexual arousal. They concluded that women -- whether they identify themselves as homosexual or heterosexual -- have bisexual arousal patterns. 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.

Men, they say, are different. The current study, reported in the current issue of Psychological Science, enrolled 30 heterosexual men, 33 bisexual men, and 38 homosexual men. 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 men viewed an 11-minute nonsexual film, followed by several two-minute sexual films and another neutral film. The sex films depicted either men having sex with men or women having sex with women.

The men indicated how aroused they felt by moving a lever up or back. Their genital arousal was measured by an elastic device attached to their penises.

Homosexual men said they were aroused by the male/male porn but not the female/female porn. So did their genital measurements. Heterosexual men said they were aroused by the female/female porn - and their genital measurements agreed.

Bisexual men said they were turned on by both sets of videos -- but their genitals responded to one or the other, not to both.

"The majority of bisexual men got aroused to men and only to men," Rieger says. "All those who didn't look like gay men looked like heterosexual men: They got aroused to women. This study fits the picture that ... men are very target specific. They have an object of their sexual desire and go for that. ... The pattern is that they have this object specificity -- it does not change."

Critics Question Results

Weitzman questions both the study methods and Rieger's interpretation of the data.

"The study methods are poor," she says. "It is such a small sample size. To make these conclusions on so few people, that is not good science. Unfortunately, this has gotten much more media play than it deserves. If you torture the data, they will confess to anything. It does not mean there are no bisexual men."

Kritzer, too, questions the study design. She points to the large number of men who were not genitally aroused during the study.

"About a third of the people had no response to any of the porn, whether they identified as gay, straight, or bisexual," she says. "The researchers said this means they had no response, so throw this data out. Yet they said that when bisexual men did not respond to all of the videos, it meant they were gay or straight."

None of the study's flaws is fatal, says Rodriguez Rust. The problem is with Kritzer and Bailey's interpretation.

"The problem with the article is that the findings have been misinterpreted," Rodriguez Rust says. "If you look at the study data, they actually do not show an absence of bisexual sexual response in men. A number of study subjects clearly did respond to both males and females. The study's conclusion -- that it remains to be demonstrated that men have a bisexual response -- is curious, because it is not supported by the findings."

 

. . . and not all porn is created equal, either. Did the researchers take that into account? My involuntary physical reaction to a sizeable amount of it is laughter.

 

i hear that!

 

I think so because sometimes seeing a really done up porno star with the giant fake tits, overly full lips, huge blonde porno hair & loud fake orgasms is a little excessive & too much of, "That'll never happen. Or you'll only see something like that right where it is, in a porno." But maybe it's because I have a strange fetish for homely, librarian chicks who look like they've never had dick in their lives,lol.

Even though I'm not into it, I think that's why Girls Gone Wild has been so popular is because it's mostly the girl next door or the girl you sit next to in class as opposed to some stripper who does it or a living.

As far the original post, I'm not so sure that would be accurate. Because as much as I love women & porno, I also love to suck a big, throbbing dick. However, gay porno doesn't really do it for me. Unless it's two gross, hairy bastards going at it, I don't cringe when I see it but rarely does it turn me on,even if it's two attractive physically fit men. When it comes down to renting porn, I definitely always go for straight porn.