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Is this reason why some women fancy other women?

- By Colin Fernandez Science Correspond­ent

A MALE scientist has been vilified after saying he had solved one of the mysteries of evolution – why large numbers of heterosexu­al women find other women sexually attractive.

Menelaos Apostolou, from the University of Cyprus, says it is because men find it a turn-on to have a partner who is sexually attracted to other women.

Same-sex attraction in straight women has continued because men are happy to have female partners who also fancy the same sex. The trait makes them less likely to cheat with other men, Professor Apostolou claimed. But critics poured scorn on the study. One woman tweeted: ‘Lesbians: I’m a woman who loves women. I’m attracted to women and only women because women are great. Men: How can I make this about me?’

Another wrote: ‘I want to kick that guy in the face.’

Professor Apostolou replied: ‘This paper aims predominan­tly to account for the evolutiona­ry origins of same-sex attraction in heterosexu­al women, and does not address lesbianism.’

About a fifth of women say they experience a degree of same-sex attraction.

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