As always, I am completely puzzled why men are fascinated by lesbians. As more and more women become lesbians it just makes it harder to men to find available women.
The dates are interesting here: 1935 to 1958. We’ve whitewashed anything from before 1960 to be squeaky clean, but when you take an honest look, there’s a lot about mid-century pop culture that is as lurid as today’s. And that was more or less missing in the ’70s and ’80s. Violent video games and horror comics (Seduction of the Innocent) are another case.
I’m not totally sure why men become more fascinated by lesbians in periods of social isolation and cocooning. Men and women segregate more from each other, and women appear to lose their sex drive (in practice, not in show). Girls were not boy-crazy in the mid-century, nor are they today. Perhaps men are holding out hope that, although they aren’t out and about looking for guys to make a connection with, they’re secretly cruising after each other. Guys might be putting a red-blooded spin on girls sheltering themselves away from guys.
Don’t know about the mid-century, but data from the past 25 years show that young women are in fact exploring bi- or homosexuality more and more:
As always, I am completely puzzled why men are fascinated by lesbians. As more and more women become lesbians it just makes it harder to men to find available women.
Peter
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As Steve Sailer would say, lesbians are not gay.
Certainly, not in the way men would like them to be.
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The dates are interesting here: 1935 to 1958. We’ve whitewashed anything from before 1960 to be squeaky clean, but when you take an honest look, there’s a lot about mid-century pop culture that is as lurid as today’s. And that was more or less missing in the ’70s and ’80s. Violent video games and horror comics (Seduction of the Innocent) are another case.
I’m not totally sure why men become more fascinated by lesbians in periods of social isolation and cocooning. Men and women segregate more from each other, and women appear to lose their sex drive (in practice, not in show). Girls were not boy-crazy in the mid-century, nor are they today. Perhaps men are holding out hope that, although they aren’t out and about looking for guys to make a connection with, they’re secretly cruising after each other. Guys might be putting a red-blooded spin on girls sheltering themselves away from guys.
Don’t know about the mid-century, but data from the past 25 years show that young women are in fact exploring bi- or homosexuality more and more:
http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2011/07/heterosexuality-declining-among-young.html
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