Richard Posner, a judge sitting on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and valedictorian of Harvard Law School, former clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Brennan, and perhaps one of the greatest legal minds of all time, had it figured it out when he stated in one of his opinions:
"Few men are interested in lesbians."
I read this and laughed out loud. Some chick sued Hustler magazine for showing pics of her that wrongfully implied that she was a lesbian, in the case Douglass v. Hustler Magazine, 769 F.2d 1128 (7th Cir. 1985). The article showed her "straddling" other women and apparently "engag[ing] in sexual activity." Posner wrote on behalf of the Court:
We would not ourselves think that Hustler was seriously insinuating -- or that its readership would think -- that [the chick] is a lesbian. Hustler is a magazine for men. Few men are interested in lesbians. The purpose of showing two women in apparent sexual embrace is to display the charms of two women.So it's not the actual homosexuality of two women that drives men crazy, it's just that the vision of 2 amorous women is better than 1 woman.
Never thought I'd look to a judge to figure out the answer to that mystery.
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