Study claims lesbians like women because it turns men on (no, really)

So, a new study has claimed to have found the origins of lesbianism and apparently it all stems back to the belief that men find it attractive.

Sorry, what?

According to Pink News, researchers at the University of Nicosia, in Cyprus have made the controversial claim that women who are attracted to the same sex only feel this way because the idea of two women together turns men on.

Scientists studied over 1,500 heterosexual couples and found that about half of all male participants admitted they would become aroused if their female partners revealed they were attracted to the same sex.

What's more, 34 per cent of men said they would like their female partners to be attracted “predominantly to members of the opposite-sex but occasionally of the same-sex”.

Again, what?

On a slightly more cave-man level, it's thought that men seek females who are attracted to the same sex because if that partner cheat on them, their ability to father a child isn't threatened. 

“A woman, driven by her sexual desires, may seek sexual contact outside of her long-term intimate relationship. When this woman has sex with another woman she does not have sex with another man which translates into same-sex contact reducing the risk of cuckoldry," the scientists write in the study.

Lead researcher, Apostolou, told Pink News, "My argument in the paper is this: A considerable proportion of men desire same-sex attractions in women, and this is one possible reason why many women have such attractions."

Sorry science, you seem to have completely missed the mark on this one.