Human sexuality is fascinating...so much so that it's a damned shame the Bush administration is so afraid to fund it.

An article in the NYTimes--Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited discusses the possibility that bisexuality in men is, well, moot. That there isn't such a thing, really, from a biological-response perspective....

In their studies, scientists in Chicago and Toronto found that men who claim to be bisexual are more aroused by images of just men rather than by separate images of women or men. They do, however, pull themselves up short and don't make the claim that there is "no such thing as male bisexuality."

Because, according to their studies, if they are going to make that particular claim, they're going to have to concede a counter-claim that bisexuality is prevalent in women. After all, it's easier to demonstrate bisexuality in women than in men.

Yet there seems to be an interesting emotional component in this...apparently, if a man has a strong emotional connection to a woman, this connection can override the biolotgical response. I kinda figured this out when, in the words of John Campbell, a web designer in Calif., quoted in the article, claims that with men he doesn't "feel the fireworks like I do with women" even though he admits to a physical attraction to both men and women.

Essentially, if the "fireworks" aren't there, it isn't satisfying...and, in his case, the fireworks are, 90% of the time, with women.

Hmmm....I thought it was only women who had to have their minds torqued a certain way to have gratifying sex.

So, it seems that some men need the attachement for sex to be gratifying...and choose to attach to women for one reason or another, and, therefore, override their homosexual impulses.

Very interesting stuff. Esp. considering how it is often said that men don't get as emotional about sex as women do.

Maybe initially....maybe it is initially biological attraction...but for it to stick, the emotional has to be there.

There is so much we don't know about the gordian knot of human sexuality...how the mind works in concert with the body, sometimes overriding it, sometimes turning itself off in favor of the body, but the two, in the long run, really do not function independently. And, more than likely, doesn't function quite the same way with men as it does with women...

But, who knows...these findings might be considered a threat to someone out there. Perhaps some homophobic little man who's married a carbon copy of his mother....