Are Men Bisexual?

A study to be published in the journal Psychological Science says not really. A team of researchers in Chicago and Toronto tested just over a hundred men--1/3 self-identified as straight, 1/3 gay, and 1/3 bisexual--and found that straight men exhibited physical signs of arousal in response only to erotic images with women, gay men responded only to images with men, and bisexual men responded to...men.* While there may be things that attract self bisexual men to have relationships with women, the researchers say it's not raw sexual desire. The study backs up the theory that bisexual man are gay men leaving a straddling life of quasi-denial, but other researchers urge caution.

Interestingly there does appear to be authentic bisexuality in women. An earlier study by the same team found that bisexual women responded physically to images of both men and women. Non-creative screenwriters, attention-starved girls at clubs, and all other purveyors of beer commercial frat boy fantasies can breathe a heavy sigh of relief. Cheap cliche saved!

*correction: apparently a small sub-group (about 1/5) of the "bisexual" participants were actually closet heterosexuals, only responding to women.