Sexual Fluidity Understanding Womens Love and Desire by hartFM

Sexual Fluidity Understanding Women's Love and Desire
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Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and

original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female

sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly

heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life,

various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.

This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and

fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond

is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one-hundred women

for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She

summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to

the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of

women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For

some, gender becomes irrelevant: "I fall in love with the person, not the gender," say

some respondents.