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Are Most Women Bisexual
Why Women Become More Bisexual As They Age, According To Science
By Jessica Cruel — Written on Aug 13, 2020
Like most women, I have no shame in admitting that I find other females attractive. I have even admitted to being open to bisexual experimentation .
For women, it's perfectly acceptable to be a little bi-curious. And, according to research, it's the norm.
A 2019 study in the Journal of Sex Research revealed that women's sexual preferences tend to be a gray area where women become more sexually fluid as they get older.
Our sexuality is a major part of our identity. Christine Kaestle is a professor of developmental health at Virginia Tech and the leader of the study. "Sexual orientation involves many aspects of life, such as who we feel attracted to, who we have sex with, and how we self-identify," she said.
In fact, researchers at Boise State University found that in a group of heterosexual women, 60 percent were physically interested in other women, where 45 percent made out with a woman in the past, and 50 percent had fantasies about the same sex.
Sometimes when I catch myself staring at a beautiful woman in the grocery store I wonder about my own sexuality. I'm not supposed to like girls! (At least according to some people in society.)
Would I date a woman? I'm not sure, but I am attracted to the beauty of other women — and they're so much easier to understand psychologically than men. 
And, personally, I believe that emotional connections and physical attraction are linked. For instance, guys tend to get cuter in our eyes if they're genuinely nice.
"Women are encouraged to be emotionally close to each other," psychology professor Elizabeth Morgan said. "That provides an opportunity for intimacy and romantic feelings to develop."
From talking about personal issues for hours to calling each other "lovers," women's friendships are often barely distinguishable from romantic relationships.
When heterosexual women hook up with other women , their relationships are based on an emotional connection. Lisa Diamond from the University of Utah believes that it only takes the right person to convince a woman to enter into a relationship with someone of the same sex. 
Not exactly. "You can still be heterosexual and have interests, experiences or fantasies with the same sex," says Morgan. 
And Kaestle adds, "At the same time, as more people pair up in longer-term committed relationships as young adulthood progresses, this could lead to fewer identities and attractions being expressed that do not match the sex of the long-term partner, leading to a kind of [bisexual] invisibility."
In addition, sexuality gets more, not less, fluid with time — yet more proof that experimentation isn't just for when you are in college.
In a study conducted by Diamond, the older a woman was, the more likely she was to describe her sexual preference as "unlabeled." 
"We have this idea that sexuality gets clearer and more defined as time goes on," says Diamond. "We consider that a sign of maturity to figure out who you are. I've seen it's really the opposite." 
Of course, the media plays a role in girl-on-girl attraction, only fueling the fire of our confusion. Not only have pop stars like Lady Gaga made bisexuality mainstream, but women can't help but ogle beautiful women — they are everywhere we turn.
According to Neuroscientist Ogi Ogas, Ph.D. analyzed billions of web information including web searches, erotic websites, and e-books, and found that women are just as likely to search for "pictures of Ryan Gosling" as "pictures of Jessica Alba." How about that?
"Women in the media are often sexualized and women constantly get the message that appearance should be important to them, so they're used to viewing women in a sexualized way," says Morgan.
I wonder how much of the attraction to other women is based on appearance and messages from the media, and how much of it is authentic and genuine. Should we even try to distinguish between the two?
Jessica Cruel is the Senior Editor of Beauty & Style at SELF Magazine.
Editor's Note: This article was originally posted in March 2015 and was updated with the latest information.
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5 Reasons We Need to Stop Saying That All Women Are Bisexual


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Have you come across the idea that all women are actually bisexual? Ever taken a close look at where that idea comes from?
In 2009, The New York Times Magazine published an article titled “ What Do Women Want? ” It posited that women were more sexually fluid than men (non-binary people weren’t discussed ) and suggested that this was primarily due to nature, not nurture.
The article centered on a study by Queen’s University psychologist Meredith Chivers showing that women’s and trans men’s genitals physically responded to sexual images of both men and women, while men’s and trans women’s tended to respond to one or the other.
Chivers put forth the theory that since vaginal lubrication makes sex more comfortable, people with vaginas benefit from exhibiting it easily, hence their response to a wide range of stimuli. She also suggested that perhaps women are more “receptive” sexually and, therefore, more likely to respond to whoever pursues them.
In 2016, Chivers and her colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology exploring this phenomenon among women of different sexual orientations, finding that lesbians responded more “like men.”
Headlines reporting on it read: “ Women Are Either Bisexual or Gay But ‘Never Straight.’ This Is the Fascinating Reason W omen Have Evolved to Become Bisexual . Are All Women Actually Bisexual or Gay? All Women Really Bisexual ?”
“Even though the majority of women identify as straight, our research clearly demonstrates that when it comes to what turns them on, they’re either bisexual or gay, but never straight,” lead author Dr. Gerulf Rieger told the Telegraph .
If you’re paying attention, you’ll notice that this was a huge leap.
Vaginal lubrication and pupil dilation (the measures in these studies) don’t tell you what people’s desires are because desire is a subjective experience. And, even if they did tell you about people’s desires, what we get turned on by doesn’t have to dictate how we identify.
The claim that women are biologically more likely to get turned on by more than one gender is inherently shaky.
Even University of Utah professor Lisa M. Diamond, who argued that women have less rigid sexual desires than men in Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love , has been reconsidering that stance.
After conducting more research finding that many straight men had same-gender attraction, fantasies, and partners, she gave a talk called “I Was Wrong! Men’s Sexuality is Pretty Darn Fluid Too.”
Nevertheless, the idea that all women are bisexual, all men are gay or straight, and non-binary people don’t exist has already been engrained in our culture’s collective consciousness and comes up often in everyday conversations.
I’ve found this extremely invalidating both as a woman who has exclusively been attracted to men and as someone who has dated polysexual men .
It’s true that more women than men in the US identify as bisexual (more than five percent of women compared to two percent identify this way, according to a CDC survey taken between 2011 and 2013).
But it’s super problematic to say this is biological or that it means all, or even most women, are bisexual.
Again, there’s a huge leap between observing that someone’s pupils dilate when they see naked men and women and calling them bisexual.
Many factors go into our sexual identity, including who we date, who we want to date, who turns us on, and who we’ve had sex with, and it’s entirely up to us which things we do or don’t factor in.
Some people, for example, may fantasize about someone of one gender but never want to act on it, so they don’t identify with those fantasies. Others may consider the fantasy alone reason enough to identify as queer.
And while some proudly assume a queer identity, many literally don’t feel safe identifying this way, and that’s okay.
“Bisexual” means many different things to different people, and no scientist gets to hijack its definition.
Nobody has the right to tell anyone what their sexual orientation is, no matter how many measurements they’ve taken.
And trying to make that call for someone takes away one of the most important powers we have: the power to define ourselves.
There’s a huge difference between openly identifying as bisexual and identifying as straight while occasionally having same-gender attraction (or not even having attraction but exhibiting physical signs of arousal in response to same-gender images).
Bisexual people face a ton of discrimination , and straight people trivialize that when they say “everyone’s a little bit bi” or “all women are bisexual.”
Not all women have been excluded by both straight and gay people , been told that their identity is just for attention, or been treated like their relationships are less real.
Bisexuality is a real identity, not just a word to throw around to discuss study results.
When researchers use the word bisexual to mean “attracted to more than one gender,” they usually fail to acknowledge that there are more than two genders out there – and that there’s more than one way to name your attraction to multiple genders.
People who are interested in people of more than one gender may identify as pansexual, for example, if they label their sexuality at all.
Additionally, we can’t ignore that plenty of folks are asexual , regardless of whether or not they experience attraction to people of any gender.
Many bisexuals use an inclusive definition of bisexual to include non-binary people, instead of the dictionary’s definition of “bisexual” as “sexually attracted to both men and women.”
But those who posit that all women are bisexual rarely consider other a/genders – hence their neglect of other non-monosexual orientations.
Using bisexual for studies that are limited to cis men and women erases the work of bisexual activists advocating for visibility for trans and non-binary people in their community.
And using it as shorthand for every polysexual identity erases the important reasons why some people identify with other terms.
The explanations given for why more women than men are bisexual often sound suspiciously like gender stereotypes.
For example, the idea Chivers brought up that women are sexually more “receptive” and less “go-out-there-and-get-it” coincides with a broader view of women as passive.
Another idea I’ve heard many people cite for women’s supposedly more frequent bisexuality is that women are beautiful .
I recently interviewed three experts about why straight women sometimes fantasize about other women, and two of them said it’s because women’s bodies are aesthetically pleasing. As if that’s some objective fact.
Sexualized images of women are all around us, encouraging our view of women as “the fair sex.” But since this cultural view stems from the objectification of women, dismissing it as natural contributes to such objectification.
The notion that women can’t help but be sexually attracted to women since women are “so sexy” also stems from and encourages the exoticization of women.
“Us girls, we are so magical, soft skin, red lips, so kissable, hard to resist, so touchable,” Katy Perry sings in “ I Kissed a Girl .” This line depicts a very stereotypical, objectified version of womanhood that treats women more like fairies or unicorns than actual people.
Women are mysterious, we’re taught. Women are exotic. Women are so nice to look at.
The idea lurking behind these claims is that women are by nature objects, and, therefore, they must be the object of everyone’s affections.
While there’s nothing wrong with personally being attracted to women, acting like attraction to women reflects some sort of objective truth encourages a lot of misogynistic ideas.
One very likely explanation for the greater number of women identifying as bisexual in the US is that it’s more socially acceptable for women than it is for men. And by claiming that women are naturally more bisexual, we’re only contributing to that social norm.
Statements about women’s innate bisexuality usually contrast it with men’s straight-or-gay sexuality and erase non-binary people, who can’t say they’re attracted to the “same” or “opposite” gender.
In reality, many people who aren’t women date, are attracted to, have sex with, or physically respond to more than one gender.
Similarly to women, men’s eyes will dilate in response to videos of both men and women masturbating, according to research by Cornell University professor Ritch C. Savin-Williams .
That goes to show that every group’s sexuality is less black and white than we thought. It doesn’t measure bisexuality, but an increasing number of men do identify as bisexual, and more probably would if people stopped saying it was inherently a female thing.
When that New York Times Magazine article came out, a lot of my friends thought it was great for feminism. Finally, they said, we’re thinking about what women desire, rather than just assuming everyone’s like men.
But we need to think about what we mean when we say “like men.”
Maybe men aren’t all really “like men” either, if “like men” means having a narrow sexual orientation in which you’re only attracted to, turned on by, and romantically interested in one gender.
Some men may be like this, but some women and non-binary people are, too. And many aren’t.
Women’s supposed sexual fluidity is sometimes celebrated as an alternative to a rigid, patriarchal, gender-role-based model of sexuality. But we can celebrate this alternative without attributing it to women in general or to women exclusively.
This form of celebration is part of a larger movement of feminists celebrating women based on their supposed differences from men . In a culture where traditionally masculine traits are disproportionately celebrated, it makes sense that we would want this.
But we’re not really celebrating women if we’re imposing an identity upon them that’s heavily based on stereotypes.
And by asserting that men’s sexuality does fit the societal norm, we’re putting them in a box, too.
We’re also ignoring all the people that don’t adhere to the gender binary and resist the narrow gender norms we can uphold when we try to fit everyone into the boxes of “straight,” “gay,” and “bisexual.”
So, we can talk about how people are more sexually fluid than previously thought, and we can talk about how women in our society are more likely to openly identify as bisexual. We can even talk about studies showing gender differences in sexual responses to images.
But let’s not use any of this information to decide what someone else’s – or an entire group’s – sexual orientation is. Only they themselves can tell us that.
Suzannah Weiss is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. She is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Seventeen, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Bustle, and more. She holds degrees in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modern Culture and Media, and Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University. You can follow her on Twitter @suzannahweiss . Read her articles here .
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Although it isn’t known how much of the human population is actually bisexual, there are many popular notions that people are either attracted to women or to men and that they are either heterosexual or homosexual. The fact is that research has consistently shown that human sexuality is much more complicated than this.
1. Nearly 13% of women between the ages of 18-44 said that they were attracted to both sexes.
2. The percentage of men who self-identify as bisexual in the 18-44 age demographic: 1.8%.
3. When asked about sexual attraction, however, almost 6% of men stated that they were attracted to both men and women.
4. In a 2009 survey, bisexuals were tolerated only slightly more than intravenous drug users in a survey of self-identifying heterosexuals.
5. Bisexual men are 5x more likely to use methamphetamine than the general population.
6. Children who are abused are 6x more likely to become bisexual than any other population demographic.
7. Nearly half of all men who are aggressive against same sex behaviors experienced arousal when shown pictures of naked men.
8. Data from Australia shows that both men and women who are bisexual have the highest percentages of suicide attempts.
9. For teens that are bisexual, they are more likely to have suicidal thoughts and feelings than any other self-identified group.
10. Women who have sex with both genders have significantly higher risks of breast and ovarian cancer.
11. About 50% of the bisexual male population, under current medical science, is not expected to reach their 65th birthday.
12. 6 out of every 10 self-identifying bisexuals don’t actually fit into the definition of bisexual behavior.
13. In the UK, a 2013 national survey found that 7% of men had at least one sexual experience with another man at some point in their life.
14. For girls who identify themselves as bisexual, they are more likely to have intercourse for the first time by the age of 14 when compared to heterosexual or same sex identifications.
15. When a teen identifies themselves as a bisexual, they are more likely to use some form of contraception.
16. Nearly 25% of bisexual and same sex orientation males in a survey of 10 US cities had not ever been tested for HIV.
17. Women who identify as being bisexual have twice the prevalence of pregnancy in young women who are either heterosexual or questioning their sexual orientation.
18. More kids are afraid to tell their fathers of their bisexual orientation than their mother.
19. For those who identify as bisexual, the average age they first thought they were attracted to both genders was 13.
20. Most bisexuals won’t tell someone about their sexual orientation until the age of 20.
21. Two thirds of the respondents of a recent LGBT survey were Caucasian. 14% were Black and 12% were Hispanic.
22. Nearly half of all bisexual households have a total family income that is less than $30k.
23. Only 9% of those aged 65 or older in a recent survey identified themselves as bisexual.
24. Up to 40% of the LGBTQ community identifies itsel
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