New York Times bids for headline of 2011

No Surprise for Bisexual Men: Report Indicates They Exist” declares a headline in yesterday’s New York Times. This news will come as a huge relief to bi men everywhere, except those who were seeking to avoid a large tax bill by citing scientific evidence that they weren’t real and therefore couldn’t be liable.

The NYT reports: “In an unusual scientific about-face, researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence that at least some men who identify themselves as bisexual are, in fact, sexually aroused by both women and men.

“The finding is not likely to surprise bisexuals, who have long asserted that attraction often is not limited to one sex. But for many years the question of bisexuality has bedeviled scientists. A widely publicized study published in 2005, also by researchers at Northwestern, reported that “with respect to sexual arousal and attraction, it remains to be shown that male bisexuality exists.”

Read the NYT article in full here.