Is it possible for some people to only experience attractions towards the opposite sex?<\/p>\n
Yes.\u00a0 Anything’s possible.\u00a0 But in this case, it would be highly unlikely and if so fall well within the boundaries of rare or abnormal.\u00a0 The fact is that most of us fall somewhere within the range of what we currently refer to as bisexual even if we never took advantage of opportunities to experience sex with same-sex or wait for it…\u00a0 opposite-sex partners.<\/p>\n
While it is unquestionably true that most of us tend to develop primary attractions towards a particular gender and also true that many would find the thought of sex with someone outside of that attraction downright disgusting, the fact is a lot of what underlines who we find ourselves sexually attracted to occurs well outside the boundaries of conscious awareness.\u00a0 This is why none of us has any real control over who we find sexually attractive.\u00a0 It’s something that happens more or less on auto-pilot deep within our minds based upon numerous factors including genetic predisposition, the type of experiences we have with others, and societal influences on ideas of who we are supposed to be attracted to.\u00a0 Anyone who believes we chose who we find sexually attractive is either not too bright or has never taken the time to look closely at their own attractions and just how they arrived at those attractions.<\/p>\n
From our own perspective, the gender we are attracted to seems natural even if it falls within fringe areas of what the society we were born into might consider “normal”.\u00a0 The idea that heterosexual or opposite sex attractions are normal and everything else is abnormal does not hold up under rational scrutiny.\u00a0 Two of the most famous studies of the demographics of human sexual orientation were Dr.\u00a0Alfred Kinsey<\/a>‘s\u00a0Sexual Behavior in the Human Male<\/i>\u00a0(1948) and\u00a0Sexual Behavior in the Human Female<\/i>\u00a0(1953). These studies used a\u00a0seven-point spectrum<\/a>\u00a0to define sexual behavior, from 0 for completely heterosexual to 6 for completely homosexual. Kinsey reported that 37% of men in the U.S. had achieved\u00a0orgasm<\/a>\u00a0through contact with another male after adolescence and 13% of women had achieved orgasm through contact with another woman.\u00a0 When you factor in the effect of social pressures against homosexuality, the percentages of same-sex or both-sex attractions would obviously be much higher.<\/p>\n There is no question about the power social influences have upon how we respond to our sexuality.\u00a0 Researchers from Cornell University asked volunteers to watch a series of porn videos to test what turned them on and what didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Experts measured how much their pupils dilated \u2014 a sign of sexual arousal.\u00a0 Women\u2019s eyes dilated watching both men with women and women with women.\u00a0 And men\u2019s pupils dilated watching both men and women masturbate, regardless of how they identified sexually.<\/p>\n Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and related identities have been present in various forms throughout history. All cultures have included, with varying degrees of acceptance, individuals who practice same-sex relations as well as those whose gender, gender identity and gender expression challenge prevailing norms, and many cultures still do.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it possible for some people to only experience attractions towards the opposite sex? Yes.\u00a0 Anything’s possible.\u00a0 But in this case, it would be highly unlikely and if so fall well within the boundaries of rare or abnormal.\u00a0 The fact is that most of us fall somewhere within the range of what we currently refer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godlessuniverse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}