I think you missed the point.

-Jim

Would anyone go to bed with someone they are not attracted to in the least bit? I thought we were assuming a continuum (that means it is neither proved nor unproved), but that simply means that in nature discontinuity is usually not the rule. However, no one knows how this continuum, if proved to exist, would be shaped in each sex group: U-shaped, J-shaped… That would include your Howard Stern having some attraction for the Brad Pitt or your average gay man for the Angelina consort.

Joking apart — How do you objectively measure sexual orientation besides self-reporting scoring on scales? Plethysmographic response, neuroscans? You name it.

Now, I still find it interesting that they found a large response to same-sex phantasy in a very large sample of twins (9153) and that they found some general genetic suport for this in the studied population. They also asserted that this genetic support in the people who had some potential for homosexual response overlaps the genetic support of people who actually had homosexual behaviour in the last 12 months. So where are the gay genes if reponse is ‘prevalent’ but behaviour is specific? They posed a similar question: why only a very small group would act on their same-sex phantasies if the found genetic support for any same-sex phantasising is prevalent? It’s a question of behavioural genetics, not one of cultural fisticuffs. Can you address this issue in the light of all the available information?

You may have already read this, but I’m going to put it here for you or others to read if you like. Its a nice “Wiki” article on the Kinsey Reports – the good, bad and ugly about the reports and some of the people who work to discredit or defend his work:

Kinsey Report

I said I was well aware of his faults already. His continuum idea still stands as a possible explanation for this “fluidity of sexuality” we talk so much about.

Well an easy answer to this question, particularly in liberal

societies where the responder might wish to burnish his or her open-minded credentials, is “Sure! I’ll try anything once.” Even Howard Stern, straight man extraordinaire, has joked on air that he would have sex with Brad Pitt, since Brad Pitt is on an otherworldly level of beauty.

Likewise, would your average gay guy turn down Angelina Jolie if propositioned? I think not, if only for the experience. (lol)

So, sure, why not – 32.8% of the men and 65.4% of the women reported that they would try sex with a handsome/beautiful same-sex person if asked (and noone else would find out).

This is an interesting study, as far as it goes – but I don’t it goes very far.

Before you go quoting Kinsey – look into his research methods and population samples.