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Outrage over bisexual study.


Was Alfred Kinsey all wrong about bisexuality? A new study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that most men who claim to be bisexual are actually gay, and the findings have some gay activists and psychologists in an uproar.

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, found that men who identified as bisexual were in fact aroused by one sex or the other, not both.

But Matt Foreman, head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) is a nonprofit organization that supports grassroots organizing and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. Founded in 1973, NGLTF works to strengthen the gay and lesbian movement at the state and local levels while , questioned the study's methodology and sample size, while criticizing its senior author, J. Michael Bailey John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American psychologist and professor. He is best known for his controversial work on biology and sexual orientation, which suggests a heritable component for sexual orientation. . "It equates sexual orientation sexual orientation
n.
The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces.
 with sexual arousal, as supposedly measured by a crude device in the hands of an individual with a long history of controversial research," Foreman said.
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Title Annotation:SCIENCE
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Aug 30, 2005
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