Lesbian and gay participants both agreed that bisexual men are significantly more attracted to men than they are to women, and lesbian women felt that this was true of bisexual women as well. In the latest study, 165 lesbian women and gay men (average age of 31 range: 18–60 years 32% currently undergraduate students 61% white) were asked to answer a set of questions about how they believed their group (lesbians or gay men) viewed bisexual women or men in general, and to what extent they thought bisexuals were sexually attracted to men versus women.Ĭonfirming past research, lesbian women were more negative toward bisexuals than were gay men, and they were more negative toward bisexual women than gay men were toward bisexual men, in particular.įurthermore, as the graph below shows, the results mostly supported the androcentric desire hypothesis. This, understandably, would be more problematic for lesbian women’s acceptance of bisexual women - as their same-gender interest is seen as “fake” - than for gay men’s acceptance of bisexual men, whose same-gender interest is seen as more authentic.