I guess it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, and there's new research showing that women's mating interest improves their ability to determine male sexual orientation (but not that of women).

Or so says the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons, a professor-emeritus at the University of Michigan. So the guy isn't a crack pot ( Read more... )

And the EU is not happy about it.

NPR has a piece on "late-life lesbians" are becoming more common, and what that says about the fluidity of sexuality over time.

There have often been thoughts that the causes of sexuality may be different in females than in males.

A drug long used to prevent females in-utero from developing ambiguous genitalia is now being explored to preventing lesbianismWell, saying it's being used for that purpose is a bit of an exaggeration, just that it could be or may have that effect ( Read more... )

( Hear noted researcher Dr. Lisa Diamond speak about the topic of sexual fluidity and her Lambda-nominated book 'Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire' at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center this Saturday )

In the previous post about raising a gender-free child, there were a couple of comments claiming that gender is entirely or mostly biological with very little or no cultural influence. One of those who commented thusly made reference to studies but provided no citation, link, or even name of the researchers [I have managed to find some of them and ( Read more... )

So I'm watching this crazy awesome special on Discovery called The Science of Sex Appeal ( Read more... )

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=single-angry-straight-male

In fact, my earliest conscious tactic to hide my homosexuality involved being outlandishly homophobic. When I was eight years old, I figured that if I used the word “fag” a lot and on every ( Read more... )