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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was having a look through this study: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/tfg-sct050219.php and I thought this might be interesting to shed some light on what is going on with "bisexual" women.

For example, 67% of women in the 'mostly straight discontinuous' group were attracted to both sexes in their early 20s. However, this number dropped to almost zero by their late 20s, by which time the women reported only being attracted to the opposite sex.

I think when you look at it overtime as this study is, then you get a clearer picture— lesbians aren't "fluid" but many "bisexual" women are and seem to only have a passing interest in women.

[–]a_blue_bird 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are they really bisexual? I can imagine a few reasons why women in their early 20s would claim to be into other women when they actually aren't.

Straight people made up the largest group and showed the least change in sexual preferences over time. Interestingly, men were more likely than women to be straight - almost nine out of 10 men, compared to less than three-quarters of women.

Do you believe that more than 1/3 of women are either bisexual or homosexual? Because I don't.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No I don't, but I think what it seems to show is that there is a small group of homosexual women, and then a larger segment of bisexual / heterosexual women who have some interest in other women. Like, I think there are loads of straight women who have labelled themselves as bisexual at some point, or have only had a brief / slight interest in other women. I wouldn't call them bisexual.

I think the point of the study though is to show that a lot of people experiment and try things as teenagers or young adults before settling into an identity that more accurately reflects who they are... so a lot of people who might've called themselves bi or lesbian as a teenager probably weren't. I can't tell you what the study means by the fact that most people in the "bisexual" group were no longer bisexual because I can't read the study itself either (like, how did they define bisexual?)... But from what I can see they are grouping together the women who have primarily have sexual experiences with men but also report some level of sexual attraction to the same sex in their teens or 20s, but whose attraction to other women doesn't remain as they get older. I think they want to make this group distinct from bisexuals who have continuing interest in both sexes and homosexual women who are gay from woe to go.

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. They're being biphobic and lesbophobic with that statement. 😅