Bisexsual sex
In honor of Bisexuality Education Day, which was Sept. 23, I want to talk about something that merges two of my all-time favorite topics: gay stuff and sexy stuff. This is a small bit of a deviation from strictly sex speak, but who we’re having sex with is a huge part of human sexuality, and I’d appreciate to address a rare things in this article that I think are worth mentioning.
First of all, I’d like to speak that I don’t name with the word “bisexual,” but that I carry out actually like boys. If we were measuring me on the Kinsey scale right now, I’d probably be a 4, sense “not quite gay but definitely not straight.” In other words, call me bi if you wish, because I guess technically you’d be right. But the reason I phone myself “queer” instead of anything else is because of some not-so-awesome responses to my bisexuality in the past.
Bisexuality is, in my opinion, very complicated and very interesting. For one, I believe sexuality is fluid, meaning that basically we’re all on a scale. Some of us are 100% unbent. Others are 100% lgbtq+. And then there’s everyone in between. (For the purpose of making things simple, I’m going to use the word “bisexual” for everyone that falls in that
Bisexual America
Who’s gay? Social scientists have extended known that the answers to this question are very different if you ask about self-identified sexual orientation, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior. Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking work on sex midway through the 20th century introduced the idea that 10% of the population was gay or dyke, but rigorous subsequent examination with national data put the real number closer to 2 or 3 percent.
But that was then. More recent data from Gallup suggest an explosion in the number of Americans who identify as LGBT, up to 7 percent. For Zoomers (Generation Z; anyone born between 1997 and 2012), a full 20% identify as LGBT. That’s a huge jump.
The reasons for this shift are obviously complex and won’t be examined at length here. There’s no real way to prove or disprove any of the usual arguments. Instead, I’ll explore whether the sharp uptick in LGB identification corresponds to a shift in sexual behavior.1
There are two broad possibilities. The first is that self-identified sexual orientation is fluid, but sexual behavior isn’t. If
Being bisexual, (or pansexual or non-monosexual, that is, organism attracted to more than one gender) can be pretty awesome, especially if you have a supportive network and are joined with other people who share your experiences.
All sexualities are super legit and valid, but sometimes organism bi you can sense a bit in the middle. There are some unhelpful and untrue stereotypes about being bisexual that we absolutely cannot linger to bust for you – especially because we know how many of our wonderful Minus18 event attendees and members of our community identify as bisexual.
Let's get some bi pride going!!
1. You're not "just confused"
Bisexual people are often accused of creature confused – that they haven’t figured who they’re “really” attracted to. That’s totally not true. Creature attracted to more than one or even all genders is totally valid. Hey, it means that you can find lots of people cute!
Sexuality can be totally confusing for everyone, no matter how they identify. That general confusion doesn’t mean that being bisexual isn’t valid though.
2. This isn’t a stepping stone or a phase.
Being bisexual or pansexual isn’t a stepping stone to being gay. They are both valid and
Women are more likely to identify as pansexual – can research into sexual arousal tell us why?
Women’s sexuality is vastly understudied in science and is still considered a “taboo” subject. Often, the experiences of men have been taken as the norm in scientific research, yet there are important differences in the sexuality of men and women.
In 2020, approximately 3.2% of the population in the UK over the age of 16 identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. But when it came to bisexuality, there was a stark difference between men and women: women were much more likely to identify as bisexual compared to men (1.6% of women compared to 0.9% of men).
Similarly, a study conducted at the University of Notre Dame found that women were three times more likely to identify as bisexual. “Women have a greater probability than men of being attracted to both men and women,” said researcher Elizabeth McClintock, when discussing the results of the research. “This indicates that women’s sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men’s.”
The evidence overwhelmingly shows that women are far more likely to ide
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