Male bisexual arousal: A matter of curiosity?

Rieger, Gerulf; Rosenthal, A. M.; Cash, Brian M.; Linsenmeier, Joan A. W.; Bailey, J. Michael; Savin‐Williams, Ritch C.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.09.007

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“…Rosenthal et al, therefore, used very stringent criteria for participant inclusion in their experiments (such as having been in a sexual relationship with at least two partners of each sex) and were able to show a clearer bisexual genital response in this population of ambiphilic men. Similar findings have been reported more recently (Rieger et al, 2013(Rieger et al, , 2015. It is notable that the stimuli used in experiments on genital responses tend to be of far greater duration (often minutes) that those used in the present experiments (< 1 s).…”

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“…Further, we acknowledge that some people do not consider any label is appropriate to them. There is also evidence for subgroups within men that identify as ambiphilic that may have great importance in terms of sexual attraction (Rieger et al, 2013). Future research, using far larger samples, is needed if we are to understand the implicit sexual associations in these groups including those that are asexual.…”

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Sexual Attraction to Both Genders in Ambiphilic Men: Evidence from Implicit Cognitions

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Ambiphilic (or bisexual) men describe feelings of sexual attraction to both men and women. However, physiological measures of arousal have failed to show a consistent pattern of arousal to both genders. We measured men's automatic associations between the concept of sex (represented by words) and the concepts of men versus women (represented by images) via the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a priming task. On the IAT, gynephilic men (N = 32) were faster for women-sex pairings, androphilic men (N = 18) were faster for men-sex pairings, while ambiphilic men (N = 20) showed no bias toward either gender. We then isolated the concepts of "men" and "women" by comparing them separately against neutral images. In contrast to both the gynephilic or androphilic men, ambiphilic men showed sexual associations to both men and women. On the priming task, ambiphilic men showed faster responses to sex words, but slower responses to not-sex words, when primed with pictures of either men or women compared to when primed by neutral images. The results from all the experimental tasks suggest that ambiphilic men have a pattern of sexual association that is different from both gynephilic and androphilic men and represents a sexual attraction to both men and women.

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Sexual Attraction to Both Genders in Ambiphilic Men: Evidence from Implicit Cognitions

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“…Even if we assume such confounds diminished true effects, there remain strong and significant correlates between male sexual orientation, pupil dilation to sexual stimuli, and reported attraction to these stimuli -which suggests that it is a measure of sexual 15 response . Although Aboyoun and Dabbs (1998) failed to find a correlation between male sexual orientation and pupil dilation using heterosexual male participants, the combined work from our group Rieger et al, 2013Rieger et al, , 2015, the early work by Hess (Hess & Polt, 1960;Hess, Seltzer, & Shlien, 1965), and a recent paper by another group (Attard-Johnson, Bindemann, & Ó Ciardha, online) suggests that, in general, pupil dilation is an indicator of sexual interest and sexual arousal, even if an imperfect measure. Alternatively, we consider it possible that present null-findings are due to small sample sizes.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…To minimize the variance attributable to the measurement or method rather than to the construct itself (Campbell & Friske, 1959), the present multimethod study explored the gay end of sexuality by determining whether Kinsey 4s, 5s, and 6s vary from each other using physiological, behavioral, and self-report measures in assessing sexual/romantic indicators of sexual orientation Rieger, Rosenthal, Cash, Linsenmeier, Bailey, & Savin-Williams, 2013;Rieger, Cash, Merrill, Jones-Rounds, Dharmavaram, & SavinWilliams, 2015).…”

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Gay, Mostly Gay, or Bisexual Leaning Gay? An Exploratory Study Distinguishing Gay Sexual Orientations Among Young Men

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(2017) 'Gay, mostly gay, or bisexual leaning gay? An exploratory study distinguishing gay sexual orientations among young men.', Archives of sexual behavior., 46 (1). pp. 265-272. Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0848-6Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016- Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. with predominant same-sex sexual and romantic interests: Those who described themselves as bisexual leaning gay (n = 11), mostly gay (n = 17), and gay (n = 47). Although they were not significantly distinguishable based on physiological (pupil dilation) responses to nude stimuli, on behavioral and self-report measures a descending linear trend toward the less preferred sex (female) was significant regarding sexual attraction, fantasy, genital contact, infatuation, romantic relationship, sex appeal, and gazing time to the porn stimuli. Results supported a continuum of sexuality with distinct subgroups only for the self-report measure of sexual attraction. The other behavioral and self-report measures followed the same trend but did not significantly differ between the bisexual leaning gay and mostly gay groups, likely the result of small sample size. Results suggest that romantic indicators are as good as sexual measures in assessing sexual orientation and that a succession of logically following groups from bisexual leaning gay, mostly gay, to gay. Whether these three groups are discrete or overlapping needs further research.

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“…Perhaps, as in women, the association between bisexuality and height may be very small and thus a larger sample of bisexual individuals may be needed to fully explore the association between bisexuality and height. Future studies could explore this possibility, but could also include different measures of bisexuality that do not assume equal attraction to men and to women within bisexual individuals (e.g., Rieger et al, 2013). …”

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Pubertal Stress and Nutrition and their Association with Sexual Orientation and Height in the Add Health Data

Skorska

Bogaert²

2016

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A number of studies have indicated that gay men tend to be shorter, on average, than heterosexual men. Less evidence exists that lesbian women are taller, on average, than heterosexual women. The most popular explanation of the association between sexual orientation and height involves prenatal factors, such that, for example, gay men may have been exposed to lower than typical androgens during fetal development, which impacts their height and sexual orientation as adults. An alternative explanation involves stress, given that stress has been associated with sexual minority identification and with lower height. Another alternative explanation involves nutrition, although its relationship is less clear with sexual minority identification. Using the Add Health data, which is a large, nationally representative and longitudinal sample of American adolescents (n = 14,786), we tested a mediation model, such that sexual orientation → pubertal stress/nutrition → height. Within men, we found that gay men (n = 126) were shorter, on average, than heterosexual men (n = 6412). None of the 24 pubertal stress-related and 15 pubertal nutrition-related variables assessed in the Add Health data mediated the relationship between sexual orientation and height in men. Within women, lesbians (n = 75) did not differ significantly in stature compared to heterosexual women (n = 6267). Thus, prenatal mechanisms (e.g., hormones, maternal immune response) are likely better candidates for explaining the height difference between gay men and heterosexual men.

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Male bisexual arousal: A matter of curiosity?

Cited by 28 publications

References 64 publications

Sexual Attraction to Both Genders in Ambiphilic Men: Evidence from Implicit Cognitions

Sexual Attraction to Both Genders in Ambiphilic Men: Evidence from Implicit Cognitions

Gay, Mostly Gay, or Bisexual Leaning Gay? An Exploratory Study Distinguishing Gay Sexual Orientations Among Young Men

Pubertal Stress and Nutrition and their Association with Sexual Orientation and Height in the Add Health Data

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