Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire

By Christina Arrington, Jenna Stephenson, Esther D. Rothblum. 2009

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Sexual fluidity in young adult women and men: associations with sexual orientation and sexual identity development (2015, methodology): “Perhaps following the cohort past young adulthood will yield an even higher frequency of sexual fluidity than Diamond (2008a) found in her sample.”
Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “Like Peplau, others who study gender differences in sexual attraction, desire, behaviour and/or identity often assume that there are greater differences between the genders than within them (e.g. Baumeister, 2000; Diamond, 2000, 2008a, 2008b; Diamond & Savin-Williams, 2000; Peplau & Garnets, 2000).”
Normative Sexuality Development in Adolescence: A Decade in Review, 2000–2009 (2011, background): “Savin-Williams (2005) and Diamond (2008) have articulated the shifting and often unstable nature of sexual identification for adolescents.”
Critical Participatory Action Research: A Feminist Project for Validity and Solidarity (2019, background): “Some of our co-researchers were sure that sex and gender were real, essential, and embodied, while others fiercely rejected all categorical identities and preferred to think about fluidity (Diamond, 2009).”
Between a Gay and a Straight Place: Bisexual Individuals’ Experiences with Monosexism (2015, background): “…apt to believe that bisexuals are ‘truly’ lesbians or gay men who are afraid to admit their true sexual orientation, as well as a belief that bisexuality is more accepted in society when compared to the perceived acceptance of lesbians and gays (Diamond, 2008a; Israel & Mohr, 2004; Klesse, 2011).”
On the Margins: Considering Diversity among Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships (2014, background): “Although past research has primarily focused on the fluidity of sexual orientation among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals across the lifespan (Diamond, 2009), contextual factors may also contribute to changes in sexuality (e.g., Preciado & Peplau, 2011).”
Contemporary Issues in Sexual Orientation and Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “It is now understood that patterns of sexual behavior and sexual orientation labels often shift over time (Diamond, 2008) and that there are often inconsistencies between individuals’ sexual attractions, behaviors, and identities (Hoburg, Konik, Williams, & Crawford, 2004; Vrangalova & Savin-William”
Narrative, Identity, and the Politics of Exclusion: Social Change and the Gay and Lesbian Life Course (2011, background): “degree of consonance between his desires and a gay identity label, perhaps revealing the way in which the sexual taxonomy has historically benefited male desire (Diamond 2008; Hammack 2005).”
“The labels don't work very well”: Transgender individuals' conceptualizations of sexual orientation and sexual identity (2016, background): “These shifts are also reflective of general theories of sexual fluidity and flexibility (Diamond, 2008; Zinik, 1985).”
How Does the Gender of Parents Matter (2010, result): “The fact that lesbian parenting did not diminish heterosexual desires in sons supports research finding greater fixity in male and fluidity in female sexual desires over the life course (Butler, 2005; Diamond, 2008).”
Comparing perceived experiences of prejudice among self-identified plurisexual individuals (2015, background): “…on the experiences of bisexual identified adults ignores the experiences of individuals who self-identify using emerging labels such as pansexual, queer and fluid (Callis, 2013, 2014; Diamond, 2008; Elizabeth, 2013; Gray & Desmarais, 2014; Kuper, Nussbaum, & Mustanski, 2012; Morgan, 2013).”
Factors Associated with Parents’ Knowledge of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths’ Sexual Orientation (2010, background): “The few longitudinal studies of GLB youths in the literature focus on fluctuations in self-identifications (Diamond, 2005, 2008), changes in problem behaviors (Rotheram-Borus, Rosario, Van Rossen, Reid, & Gillis, 1995), predictors of substance use (Rosario, Schrimshaw, & Hunter, 2004), and…”