You know that you screwed up big time when your wife not only leaves you after years of marriage, but leaves you for another women. See, your stubborn refusal to put down the toilet seat made her swear off men forever. For shame.
I've always heard that women love men that they "know." Emotional closeness seems to be a major factor for female attraction to a partner, of any gender. As a guy, I can kind of see that but not totally. Liking a person is an important part of attraction but it is secondary to physical attraction. At least at first.
Researchers at the University of Utah say that sometimes people fall in love first and then sexual attraction comes later. Researcher Lisa Diamond talked with some lesbian couples whose confused but happy opinions often sounded like "I don't know what's going on, but I love this woman. I've never felt like this before."
The study suggests that these women were not gay before they met their current partner but that their sexuality is fluid. Its possible that the fluidity is caused by the neurobiological pathways in the brain. The pathways that rule sexual attraction are often very similar, if not identical, to the neurobiological pathways for romantic love.
The University of Utah researchers are now looking to discover why some people have a greater sexual fluidity than others. "You can have a whole group of lesbian and gay and bisexual and unlabled individuals in the same room, and they all might be experiencing same-sex attractions for slightly different reasons and in slightly different ways," Diamond says. "Now the puzzle is to figure out why that is and how to explain it developmentally."
Keep in mind, this study only followed 79 women for 15 years. Usually several hundred participants are needed to get a full, accurate picture of how a group behaves. A lot more work needs to be done.
Source:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129050832
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