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"Individuals who identify as heterosexual but engage in same-sex sexual behavior" are simply not heterosexual, by definition.

dreta 8y ago
I think the idea is that they identify as heterosexual, not that they are; that's what makes it interesting to researchers.
- bufferoverflow 8y ago
  Yeah, but if I identify as a queen of England, I'm simply delusional. I don't get what's so unusually interesting about it. Psychiatry has been dealing with delusions for hundreds of years.
  - AstralStorm 8y ago
    The difference between madness and experiment is the method and results. People do not have to be consistent. Three follow up study could try to determine how they identify themselves later and what kind of sex life these people have. The study is probably underpowered to detect any mental issue if any exists whatsoever.
  - Sylos 8y ago
    Whether you're the Queen of England is a factoid. It can be either right or wrong. Whether you're sexually attracted to men or women is entirely subjective and not mutually exclusive. You can have a preference, which is most likely what you identify as, but you won't find the other sex entirely sexually unattractive as a result of that.
angry_octet 8y ago
Did you even read the article?
Sylos 8y ago
The definition of heterosexual is "sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex". You can have sex with someone without being sexually attracted to their sex in general (with them being the exception) or even without being sexually attracted to them at all. Maybe you just want company while jerking off.
- bufferoverflow 8y ago
  There are multiple definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality. Unfortunately the article didn't specify which one. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heterosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heterosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homosexuality
  - Sylos 8y ago
    The article's use of "heterosexual" describes a person. Those two definitions that you listed describe a feeling or behaviour. And while there are people who will call others "gay" as soon as they do anything that could be interpreted as vaguely sexual with someone of the same sex, that's hardly a scientific definition. And no one will identify themselves as this kind of "gay".
    - bufferoverflow 8y ago
      So you're saying there's no connection between "heterosexual" and "heterosexuality"?
      - Sylos 8y ago
        That is not at all what I am saying. I cannot explain this to you better than I already have. Your diverging definition of heterosexuality describes a behaviour or a feeling. It does not apply to people being heterosexual. This is how definitions work. It describes a thing that this word can mean. If what you want it to mean does not fit into the definition, then that's not what it means.

dreta 8y ago

I think the idea is that they identify as heterosexual, not that they are; that's what makes it interesting to researchers.

bufferoverflow 8y ago
Yeah, but if I identify as a queen of England, I'm simply delusional. I don't get what's so unusually interesting about it. Psychiatry has been dealing with delusions for hundreds of years.
- AstralStorm 8y ago
  The difference between madness and experiment is the method and results. People do not have to be consistent. Three follow up study could try to determine how they identify themselves later and what kind of sex life these people have. The study is probably underpowered to detect any mental issue if any exists whatsoever.
- Sylos 8y ago
  Whether you're the Queen of England is a factoid. It can be either right or wrong. Whether you're sexually attracted to men or women is entirely subjective and not mutually exclusive. You can have a preference, which is most likely what you identify as, but you won't find the other sex entirely sexually unattractive as a result of that.

angry_octet 8y ago

Did you even read the article?

Sylos 8y ago

The definition of heterosexual is "sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex". You can have sex with someone without being sexually attracted to their sex in general (with them being the exception) or even without being sexually attracted to them at all. Maybe you just want company while jerking off.

bufferoverflow 8y ago
There are multiple definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality. Unfortunately the article didn't specify which one. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heterosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heterosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homosexuality http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homosexuality
- Sylos 8y ago
  The article's use of "heterosexual" describes a person. Those two definitions that you listed describe a feeling or behaviour. And while there are people who will call others "gay" as soon as they do anything that could be interpreted as vaguely sexual with someone of the same sex, that's hardly a scientific definition. And no one will identify themselves as this kind of "gay".
  - bufferoverflow 8y ago
    So you're saying there's no connection between "heterosexual" and "heterosexuality"?
    - Sylos 8y ago
      That is not at all what I am saying. I cannot explain this to you better than I already have. Your diverging definition of heterosexuality describes a behaviour or a feeling. It does not apply to people being heterosexual. This is how definitions work. It describes a thing that this word can mean. If what you want it to mean does not fit into the definition, then that's not what it means.