Cue the Cheesy Guitars

In today's NY Times there is an article about research questioning the existence of true bisexuality. Controversy will no doubt rage over the main thesis of the study, but our favorite part came after the jump.

One scientist discusses an extremely, um, plausible scenario -- one so often experienced that the makers of adult-oriented filmic narratives have had no choice but to include it regularly as a key plot element:

Researchers have little sense yet of how these differences may affect behavior, or sexual identity. In the mid-1990's, Dr. Diamond recruited a group of 90 women at gay pride parades, academic conferences on gender issues and other venues. About half of the women called themselves lesbians, a third identified as bisexual and the rest claimed no sexual orientation. In follow-up interviews over the last 10 years, Dr. Diamond has found that most of these women have had relationships both with men and women.

"Most of them seem to lean one way or the other, but that doesn't preclude them from having a relationship with the nonpreferred sex," she said. "You may be mostly interested in women but, hey, the guy who delivers the pizza is really hot, and what are you going to do?"

(Emphasis is, of course, all ours.)

Posted by BT at July 05, 2005 11:07 AM