nymag.com, August 5, 2015 When straight women hook up with other straight women, no real explanation is required; when straight men hook up with other straight men, it’s a different story. This divide stems from a common understanding of human sexuality: The female variety of it is more malleable, more inherently open to experimentation and variety, than the male variety. In Not Gay: Sex Between...
Guardian: Science, Friday 24 July 2015 In a recent Guardian article , Simon Copland argued that it is very unlikely people are born gay (or presumably any other sexual orientation). Scientific evidence says otherwise. It points strongly to a biological origin for our sexualities. Finding evidence for a biological basis should not scare us or undermine gay, lesbian and bisexual (LGB) rights. Read...
Kinsey Institute, December 23, 2014
The past decade has seen a rapid growth in awareness of and interest in asexuality as a category of sexual orientation/identity.
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Kinsey Confidential, Posted October 7, 2014
Research by The Kinsey Institute’s Erick Janssen and Jerome Cerny reveals unique sexual arousal pattern in bisexual men.
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ABC Science Show, Saturday 28 June 2014 12:05PM
Christopher Ryan reviews the enjoyment of sex, evidence from prehistory, and even the charming behaviour of bonobos, to suggest that conventional monogamy is but a blip in human history, and basically, doesn’t work.
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The Conversation, 2 June 2014, 2.17pm AEST
The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furore in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.
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