Male Bisexuality Research Evolving
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 17 (UPI)
Bisexual research is vague, with research generally categorizing people as either “homosexual” or “heterosexual,” U.S. researchers said.
Sex researchers from the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University collaborated with Paul H. Gebhard, an original member of pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey’s research team and later a long-time director of The Kinsey Institute to reflect on research involving male bisexuality.
“Overall, Kinsey would be disappointed,” Gebhard told the researchers, Michael Reece and Brian Dodge, director and associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University.
Kinsey believed that culture plays a key role in a person’s sexual behavior. Gebhard said Kinsey and his research team avoided looking for causes for sexual orientation out of concern that the findings could be used against people. Through sexual history interviews, they instead sought to capture snapshots of human sexual experience, which proved to be fluid.
Since Kinsey’s day, Gebhard noted that many researchers have moved to a medical model of sex research — looking for genetic causes of homosexuality.
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing that research is evolving,” Dodge wrote in the Journal of Bisexuality. “Biology and genetics, of course, are part of the picture. But we seem to be swinging in the direction where some scientists are using these as universal explanatory constructs and trying to minimize, or even negate, the role of an individual’s culture and environment, aspects that Kinsey thought were most important.”
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Is this study implying that homosexuality is a choice? Based on my personal experience I don’t think my enviorment had anything to do with my sexual orientation, only my gender expression. I would love to learn more and look forward to new posts.
I have been a proud Gay man, out since I was 16 (now58)up until the 1970’s very few men called them selves “bi-sexual” it was used at that time by attractive,professionals such as movie stars and artist,other professional persons to avoid being labeled with the ever stigmatizing word FAG! Again very seldom will you find an ugly Bi-sexual!
If you have sex with a man(and emotions are involved)not for pay and such you are Gay!
But chill out I also say engaging in any sex act(performed on you or by you to another man,does not determine your orientation.
Also speaking from personal experience it was or is not a choice! made by anyone it is a part of your “NATURAL MAKE-UP” i.e. color of your eyes, height and body make-up(weight).
Comments welcome!
Tommy Tee
DRAG QUEENS!
They are an stain on the hard earned civil rights of all Gays!
Dressing up like a female(doing the same old sad lip-syncing (please not one more Tina or Cher) real singing is almost non-existent! (Major exception, the personable and very talented Ru-Paul)
I think it is sooo! sad to see in regional, so called Gay Newspapers with adds for almost ever dance or Nightclub bragging about their long list of(NIGHTLY) drag show talent. Again,
I have been to Gay clubs all over this country and with few exceptions, silly, no talented (usually fat persons with some or many other self esteem issues, ashamed to be who they really are!
Did anyone think to have men dance,lip-synch as MEN!
Look at the media as a whole, gay rights marches always showing DRAG QUEENS! ENOUGH!
How can we really be taken seriously?
Only with love of my brothers and sisters!
Tommy Tee
Transsexuals and Transvestites!
GLAAD, Gays Lesbians Allied Against Discrimination
A Transsexual: is a person of one physical sex, who feels he is really of the opposite sex.
Transvestite: A person who gets some sexual release from the act.
Neither of these things relates to ones sexual orientation.
Where was I the day the vote was taken to include these conditions in our civil rights campaign?
Don’t agree?
Lets talk!
Tommy Tee