Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-0251, USA.
Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2020 Oct;49(7):2389-2403. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-01565-1. Epub 2019 Dec 9.
Previous research has examined the phenomenon of "sexual fluidity," but there is no current consensus on the specific meaning and operationalization of this construct. The present study used a sample of 76 women with diverse sexual orientations to compare four different types of sexual fluidity: (1) fluidity as overall erotic responsiveness to one's less-preferred gender, (2) fluidity as situational variability in erotic responsiveness to one's less-preferred gender, (3) fluidity as discrepancy between the gender patterning of sexual attractions and the gender patterning of sexual partnering, and (4) fluidity as instability in day-to-day attractions over time. We examined how these four types of fluidity relate to one another and to other features of women's sexual profiles (bisexual vs. exclusive patterns of attraction, sex drive, interest in uncommitted sex, age of sexual debut, and lifetime number of sexual partners). The four types of fluidity were not correlated with one another (with the exception of the first and fourth), and each showed a unique pattern of association with other features of women's sexual profiles. The only type of fluidity associated with bisexuality was overall erotic responsiveness to the less-preferred gender. The findings demonstrate that future research on sexual fluidity should distinguish between its different forms.
先前的研究已经考察了“性流动性”现象，但对于这一结构的具体含义和操作化，目前尚无共识。本研究使用了一个由 76 名具有不同性取向的女性组成的样本，比较了四种不同类型的性流动性：（1）对不太偏好的性别的整体性欲反应的流动性；（2）对不太偏好的性别的性欲反应的情境可变性；（3）性吸引力的性别模式与性伴侣的性别模式之间的差异；（4）随着时间的推移，日常吸引力的不稳定性。我们研究了这四种类型的流动性如何相互关联，以及与女性性特征（双性恋与排他性吸引力模式、性欲、对非承诺性性行为的兴趣、性初夜年龄和一生性伴侣数量）的其他特征相关。这四种类型的流动性彼此之间没有相关性（除了第一和第四种），并且每种流动性都与女性性特征的其他特征呈现出独特的关联模式。唯一与双性恋相关的流动性类型是对不太偏好性别的整体性欲反应。研究结果表明，未来关于性流动性的研究应该区分其不同形式。
