There's reason to think women's sexual preferences, in particular, can change in response to an experience with a member of their non-preferred sex. Humans might not be so malleable - other experiments show conditioning typically works better and faster for animals than it does for people - but according to Hoffmann, some of us might be. Other experiments suggest similar effects can occur in rats.īy conditioning the animals to prefer mates of their non-preferred sex, and then conditioning them to revert back, the researchers showed that the animals' sexual preferences were somewhat fluid. However, their presumed natural predilection for females was not lost: Another experiment showed it was much easier to reorient those male quails toward females through "reverse learning" than it was to try and reorient males who had already had sex with females toward other males. After this learning experience, the latter group of quails maintained a sexual preference for males, suggesting that they were being sexually oriented through learning.
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In one experiment, male quails were hormonally altered so as to allow other "sexually naïve" (virgin) male quails to have sex with them.