Random Scientific Study Suggests There's No Such Thing As "Straight" People (13 items)

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  (#6) Fluid Sexuality Is Being More Widely Acknowledged

  In 2017, Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams published a book, "Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men." In the book, he observed a growing tendency of men to identify themselves not as completely straight, but as "mostly straight." Savin-Williams mentioned a poll that found, among men in the US age 18-24, that 6% said their sexual attraction was directed toward "mostly opposite sex."

  However, when these men were asked to identify as either straight, gay, or bi, about three-quarters of the representation identified themselves as straight. Savin-Williams said this indicated that these men felt the term "bisexual" implied more of an even split than what they experience in real life, so they chose straight, with potential caveats.
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  (#1) A 2015 Study Said All Women Experience Some Attraction To More Than One Gender

  In 2015, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Essex studied the arousal of women when viewing sexually explicit material. In the study, researchers studied female-identifying volunteers and determined if they were experiencing arousal by observing eye dilation. The women were shown sexual stimuli, some featuring men and some featuring women. The result? All of the women, whether reporting to be gay, straight, or somewhere else on the spectrum, experienced some degree of attraction to both men and women. This indicated that individual women tend to range in their sexuality, at least when gauged on "male-typical sexual response" stimuli, on which the study was premised.
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  (#12) Millennials Are More Likely To Identify Themselves Somewhere In The Middle Of The Sexual Spectrum

  When it comes to understanding that human sexuality is more complex than simply straight/gay/bi, Millennials are statistically proving to be more progressive and open-minded than older generations. A 2015 study of adults in the US under 30 years old found that 78% identified as completely straight. Four percent identified as completely homosexual. However, 16% said they are somewhere in between, with 10% saying they are more heterosexual than homosexual.

  Three percent said they are more gay than straight, and another 3% said they are right in the middle. According to reporting on the study, ultimately "31% of under-30s plot themselves as something other than exclusively heterosexual."
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  (#4) Lesbians Tend To Have Higher Self-Esteem Than Straight Women

  One of the directors of the 2015 study of women's sexual attraction was Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams, psychology professor at Cornell. Based on the study, he observed, "If you look at women, the self-esteem of lesbian women tends to be higher than that of straight women." He thinks one reason for this is that gay women "feel like they have more freedom (to be who they really are)." While women who identify as straight might feel societal pressure to not acknowledge if they also experience some attraction to women.
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  (#8) Learning About The Sexual Spectrum Helps People To Be Proud Of Their Attractions

  As society learns that it's perfectly normal for people to not be 100% straight or 100% gay, it will allow people to be more comfortable stating their true sexual identity and accepting others for doing the same. "I do see this loosening of the boundaries," said Dr. Savin-Williams. "It's probably a good thing, because it gives kids growing up more diversity, more options." He added, "Straight women and straight men feel much more comfortable than ever before in going into the realm of the other sex in terms of gender role and how they act."
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  (#11) Sensuality May Be More Important To Women Than Gender

  Dr. Chivers of the 2015 study observed that straight women weren't likely to experience arousal while viewing men in non-sexual situations. Instead, what produced the most arousal was viewing footage with a high degree of sensuality, which could involve people of any gender.

  Couples featuring a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and a man all drew responses from straight women. "Women physically don’t seem to differentiate between genders in their sex responses, at least heterosexual women don’t," she said. “For heterosexual women, gender didn’t matter. They responded to the level of activity.”

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