You don’t exist.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You think you’re straight. You know you’re straight. You can prove you’re straight, just ask anyone in your contact list, or text your current partner, or check out your Instagram account.
Hey, you don’t have to prove anything to me. I don’t care one way or the other and — and neither should you.
Sexuality isn’t one or the other. It’s a complex, complicated, driven by external stimuli and internal interpretation, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink kind of thing.
Who says 100% straight doesn’t exist? That would be Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Director of the Sex and Gender Lab at Cornell University.
In an effort to get at the core of who people really are, as opposed to who they have been socialized to say they are, Savin-Williams conducted a study using pupil dilation to monitor arousal.
You, me, the guy with the laptop hogging the best seat at your local Starbucks; none of us can control our pupil dilation. Can’t be done. Can’t be faked, but it can be measured.
Results? No matter how a person self-identified their eyes dilated when they were shown sexual images of both genders.
A little more dilation here, a little less dilation there, but still a definite physiological response.
Conclusion? Sexuality is not binary, it’s a continuum.
Sorry, you’re only mostly straight 🙂
Kinsey came to that conclusion deductively (and to some extent empirically) decades ago. Good to see some physical data support it.
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Yes, this is just more proof that Kinsey was right 🙂
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I like the continuum idea. It gives credence to people who identify as bisexual. Me, I’m a Kinsey 6.
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Yes, bisexual people have taken a lot of flak. This should help.
Not sure where I fit on the scale, but life is full of possibilities 🙂
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Glad to see I’m in good company.
JP
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Not sure I’d call the rest of the human race good company 🙂
We should probably all stop worrying about being mostly gay or mostly straight and concentrate on being mostly happy 🙂
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I mean Brian! But agreed. I can only tell you my preference – who others are drawn to is their business. I’ve never understood the preoccupation some people have with others sexual preference, especially when there are so many other things in the world to worry about.
Thought provoking as usual. X
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I saw that your comment seemed to be stuck on top of Brian’s, but I didn’t know that meant you were commenting on his comment. I thought there was some kind of glitch… ugh! Apparently, I’m the glitch 🙂
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That’s a rockin’ study!!! Cheers! 🙂
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