CBS: (Study) Do Bisexual Men Really Exist?

[truthpusher]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/30/health/webmd/main805081.shtml

Do Bisexual Men Really Exist?
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August 30, 2005
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Bisexual men aren't fully bisexual, a controversial study suggests.
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In the study, bisexual men reported being sexually aroused by erotic videos of both men and women. But a device attached to their genitals told another story.

Gerulf Rieger, a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, conducted the study with psychology professor J. Michael Bailey, PhD.

"We used measures of sexual arousal to explain true sexual feeling," Rieger tells WebMD. "In men, there is no good evidence that something like a true bisexual attraction is out there."

That conclusion doesn't fit with the experience of San Francisco psychologist Geri Weitzman, PhD, who runs a Web site listing bisexual-friendly professional services.

"I have seen in my practice very, very, very many men who are bisexual," Weitzman tells WebMD. "Really, there are so many bisexual men out there. There are so many men who say — and demonstrate — that they love men and love women and are happy with it."

Rieger and Bailey are looking in the wrong place for men's sexual identities, says Sheeri Kritzer, a Bisexual Resource Center board member. Identity, she says, comes from above the ears, not below the belt.

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complete story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/30/health/webmd/main805081.shtml

[Inland]

1. Right up with "are there any good single men out there?"

Essentially unanswerable.

[Darkseid69]

2. Everyone's bisexual to an extent

It's just the percentages that vary.

[PatrioticLeftie]

3. Well, I'm glad they're finally looking into this extremely important issue

Sarcasm

[xchrom]

4. i really like bi-men

they are there when ya need 'em -- and not when ya don't.

[fob]

5. Uh...I'm no Marine Biologist, but as Miss Kritzer says, shouldn't

the "device" be attached to their BRAIN, not their NADS?

[Ian David]

6. The premise may be correct, but the device is useless

While the premise of the article may be correct, the device they used to test it is somewhere between worthless and mildly amusing.

Someone posted some information discrediting the device a few weeks ago.

[justin899]

7. This "Study" Has Already Been Debunked Back When It Was Published In

The New York Times...

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/bisexuality-study-nyt-gives-prominence.html

GLAAD or some other group also had a piece on it when it first came out. I guess CBS has decided to pick up on the "study" without pointing out the problems with one of the people who conducted it.

The fact that the corporate media gives any credence to this fool ought to anger you.

[Terran]

8. How do you "measure" sexual arousal that precisely, anyway?

That seems pretty unscientific to me, at best. What would it be, the amount of blood flowing in the penis? Just stupid. I've known lots of functionally bisexual men over the years, and it hardly matters that maybe they're slightly more turned on by one gender over another.

[TaleWgnDg]

9. I read the other day in some medical journal that a clinical . . .

study was done on this very issue but the means was an MRI to detect the areas of the brain that excite . . . wish the hell I could recall which journal it was or the name of the medical professionals . . . sorry.

[Guy Fawkes]

10. CBS: (Study) Does Ann Coulter Really Exist?

Where are the GOOD studies?