Men are more likely to forgive their cheating partners if they have a lesbian fling rather than an affair with another man, according to scientists.
Forgiven Curiosity?
Researchers found men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than one who has cheated with another man.
But University of Texas study found women show the opposite pattern. Ladies are more likely to continue dating a man who has had a heterosexual affair than one who has had a homosexual fling.
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Sorry guys, no man love for you... without the risk...
"A robust jealousy mechanism is activated in men and women by different types of cues those that threaten paternity in men and those that threaten abandonment in women," said Jaime Confer, the study's lead author and a doctoral candidate in evolutionary psychology.
The question then becomes, if you're curious, and perhaps even slightly unhappy in your hetero relationship, what's stopping you from discovering a more, happy you? Hmmmm....
If gay people are said to be 10% straight, it stands to reason straight people are 10% gay. -Being Erica
I think a lot of it's true. Sometime you just have so many bad relationships with men, you're willing to try anything... and being that there isn't a stigma of being lesbian, that probably explains why most women do have a lesbian encounter at least once in their relationship history. Well that and the rest of us get way too drunk at a party and our boyfriends start chanting "Kiss, kiss, kiss"... don't ask me how I know this.
Interestingly enough, such backwards taboos in society may actually be in place to reinforce womens' sexuality. It appears as if most women are bisexual:
Heterosexual women, Dr. Chivers and her colleagues found, were no more excited by athletic naked men doing yoga or tossing stones into the ocean than they were by the control footage: long pans of the snow capped Himalayas. When straight women viewed a video of a naked woman doing calisthenics, on the other hand, their blood flow increased significantly.
“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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