xxxual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
Publisher: Harvard University Press | English | April 15, 2009 | ISBN: 0674032268 | PDF 352 pages | 2Mb

Many women experience a fluid xxxual desire that is responsive to a person rather then a specific gender, argues Diamond n this fascinating and certain to be controversial study. Diamond, associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, is best when detailing, with vivid examples, how scientific studies of xxxual desire and behavior have focused on the experience of men, for whom the heteroxxxual/homoxxxual divide seems mostly fixed. Diamond says traditional labels for xxxual desire are inadequate; for some women even bixxxual does not truly express the protean nature of their xxxuality. Diamond details in accessible and nuanced language her own study of 100 young women (by her own admission not fully representative) over a period of 10 years. She says that she is calling for an expanded understanding of same-xxx xxxuality that could radically affect both LGBT activists who hold that xxxual identity is fixed and antigay groups who believe xxxuality is chosen. xxxual fluidity involves a mix of internal and external factors, but is not, Diamond emphasizes, a matter of conscious choice, and she speculates that a younger generation that views xxxuality as personal rather than political might embrace this less rigid view.

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