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Posted by: cyanidefreak
06/23/2008, 17:35:46
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 I actually had something about that on the last message but erased it. Bisexuality is the enigma to me - not homosexuality. That is really what interests me in Savic's works. (That and the Star Trek thing.) If she can definitively show that nonsexual stimuli illicit brain patterns that can be distinguished among straights and homosexuals, then next let's see what self identified bisexual brains look like with the same set of stimuli. Is it an equal mix of brain patterns? Clinically it would not seem to be the case as most people who identify as bisexual are not equally attracted to members of both sexes regardless of how they identify themselves. Will there be some graded patterns found? Will bisexuals with a greater preference for same sex patterns have the same type of brain patterns as those with a preference for opposite sex partners? I don't know.


In my own experience in many, many years around a college campus most of the homosexual people I ever knew really are wired for their sexual preferences. I have known quite a number who actually chose the life style. Most of those people did it because they will do anything contrary to the "norm". They are truly "deviants." But then, they are that way about everything. When they are 50 they will still be fast food managers. On the other hand I have known some older people who identified themselves as Proud Bisexuals but I think they were just over intellectualizing their sex lives the same way they over intellectualized every thing else.

Most of the people that I have known that claimed bisexuality really seemed like they were just horny hetero kids who took what they could get.

Maybe someday someone can show, as sociobiology shows with so many other things, that sexuality on an individual basis can be scored on a Cartesian continuum between the influence of nature and the influence of environment. Bisexuality may be the "norm," just by degrees. What will be interesting to see is how certain brain reactions, like those Savic is studying, correlate to those influences.

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