tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post116226747990525692..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Invisible Nudes ReduxThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1162595946490332412006-11-03T15:19:00.000-08:002006-11-03T15:19:00.000-08:00Yeah, it's hard to interpret their data. The only ...Yeah, it's hard to interpret their data. The only group that conforms to their <B><I>Attraction/Repulsion Model of Attention and Sexual Orientation</I></B> is the heterosexual male group.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the bootstrapping commentary. One wonders why they didn't do a better job of selecting participants (either by recruiting women at Kinsey 5-6 or by increasing their N to represent the entire range).<BR/><BR/>And of course, I was kidding about the "male bisexuality doesn't exist" experiment. But you can read Chris's excellent commentary here, <A HREF="http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/07/does-male-bisexuality-exist.html" REL="nofollow">Does Male Bisexuality Exist?</A> and here, <A HREF="http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/07/another-note-on-study-of-bisexuality.html" REL="nofollow">Another Note on the Study of Bisexuality</A>.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I did mention the <A HREF="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.037" REL="nofollow">erection fMRI study</A> in passing, but thought, uh, I'm blogging on too many things sexual and neuroscientific!The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1162556181312002292006-11-03T04:16:00.000-08:002006-11-03T04:16:00.000-08:00Since you blog on all things sexual and neuroscien...Since you blog on all things sexual and neuroscientific, I figure you'll have to blog on this:<BR/><BR/>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WNP-4KV3XV1-1&_coverDate=11%2F01%2F2006&_alid=480516898&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6968&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4852321&md5=0c885d8f527afef3a26dce5cafc87f19Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1162548442318205282006-11-03T02:07:00.000-08:002006-11-03T02:07:00.000-08:00Hah... I wrote a post on the "male bisexuality doe...Hah... I wrote a post on the "male bisexuality doesn't exist" study a long time ago. I was amazed at how silly it was.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I emailed one of the authors after you posted about this study before, while for some reason it still wasn't on PNAS, and he sent me a copy the next day. When I read it, I honestly could not figure out what the hell it meant. I still don't know.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and they use bootstrapping not just because their n's are small, but because the Kinsey score distributions are anything but normal. Bootstrapping ends up being sort of like pairing male and female scores, so it's really a pretty good choice. If only anything else in the paper had been a good choice, or at least one that made any sense to me.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1162506829001815612006-11-02T14:33:00.000-08:002006-11-02T14:33:00.000-08:00Well, according to this study, they don't really e...Well, according to <A HREF="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01578.x" REL="nofollow">this study</A>, they don't really exist...<BR/><BR/>Rieger G, Chivers ML, Bailey JM. (2005). Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men. Psychol Sci. 16:579-84. <BR/><BR/>There has long been controversy about whether bisexual men are substantially sexually aroused by both sexes. We investigated genital and self-reported sexual arousal to male and female sexual stimuli in 30 heterosexual, 33 bisexual, and 38 homosexual men. In general, bisexual men did not have strong genital arousal to both male and female sexual stimuli. Rather, most bisexual men appeared homosexual with respect to genital arousal, although some appeared heterosexual. In contrast, their subjective sexual arousal did conform to a bisexual pattern. Male bisexuality appears primarily to represent a style of interpreting or reporting sexual arousal rather than a distinct pattern of genital sexual arousal.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1162503211807858692006-11-02T13:33:00.000-08:002006-11-02T13:33:00.000-08:00Plus, there was no group of bisexual men.Plus, there was no group of bisexual men.Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04943949264511919698noreply@blogger.com