Wrong - There is no right or wrong way to be bisexual. You are the person who determines your sexuality. If you only date girls but are also attracted to guys, you can be bisexual. The same goes for people who date guys, but still like girls.
Some people believe that your sexuality is always changing. If you are bisexual, you could be attracted to men and women at different points in your life. It is the individual you find attractive, not their gender.
Bisexuals are promiscuous, they can't hold down a committed monogamous relationship
Wrong - News flash: a bisexual can fall in love and hold down a relationship. Being bisexual might mean you feel attracted to guys and girls, but it doesn't give you license to be unfaithful to your partner, or to expect him/her to accept another person in to your love life. Relationships still have the same rules.
Bisexual people are just playing around, they can choose to be straight
Wrong - You don't choose your sexual orientation, you just feel it, be you straight, gay or bi. There's a difference between being straight and falling in love with a person of the opposite sex and being bi and doing so. In the latter case, this doesn't mean that they aren't attracted to people of the same sex still or that they aren't bisexual. You aren't turned straight.
Bisexual people are just denying that they are gay
Wrong - Being bisexual is different to being lesbian or gay. However, because your sexuality can change over time, it is possible to be bisexual for a while and then to be gay or straight. But most consider themselves bisexual for their whole lives and they tend not to change the category from one relationship to the next.
information found @ http://www.thesite.org/sexandrelationships/sexuality/awareness/bisexualmyths
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i agree 100% on everything you say.
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To me categorizing sexuality is a hard thing to do. As you point out being bizexual can mean totally seperate things. One day I might be very attracted to a man, yet the next week I could be totally against that and be into women for the next 40 years. Sexuality is a hard thing to pin down, but I think thats a good thing. People should be open about who and what they want to do with other people, and should be free to make those decisions.
My sexuality is always in some flux. First I felt I was bisexual, and now I feel much more asexual. Its very confusing at times, and it can be hard to sort out by yourself.
All in all sexuality is a very interesting topic, and people should be more open about it in discussion.
Stereotypes can be so annoying. What's so hard to understand when someone states that they like both men and women? That's the end of what you really need to understand. Most people take hterosexuals and homosexuals at face value. Why not bisexuals?
Hate to rain on the parade, but this link, I've posted it before, highlights an interesting scientific study on male bi-sexuals,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html?ei=5088&en=5a82f18cadf2ad83&ex=1278216000&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1175685873-OZTiGfJAMtSOsI9X7uRQxg
People are born with innate sexual predispositions, be they heterosexual or homosexual. You don't choose to be either, you just are. You do however choose, to varying degrees, to be bi-sexual. Bi-sexuality is a psychologically determined sexual preference, not a physiological one.
So a gay guy can't 'choose' to be straight, he can choose to pretend to be straight, but that's not the same thing. Likewise a straight guy can't choose to be gay, he can choose to deviate from his naturally assigned sexual preference, but that is deviance from natural sexual preference. It goes against his nature.
Interestingly, a further study by the same team concluded that there were a number of women who demonstrated genuine, physiological arrousal from erotic images of both sexes. So bisexuality would seem to be a condition which does exist as a stable natural sexual preference for a number of women. It would also go along way to explaining why the thought of kissing another girl doesn't bother most women, whereas the idea of kissing another guy for any heterosexual guy would not wash so easily.
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I was in an LGBT meeting last night in which we discussed this "study". One of the things I find wrong with it is, however they chose to do the study, not everyone is attracted to the same thing. We all have different tastes, beauty is in the eye of the bolder and all that. So if the majority of the images shown (they were presumably images) are white women with big breasts, and some guys in the study like Latina women with smaller breasts, it is less likely they will get aroused. If a guy is attracted to women with thin lips and a small nose and gets shown a picture of a woman with full lips and a wide nose, he may not be attracted to her. There are other things we discussed last night that are wrong with the study, but I don't feel like typing it all out.
Either way, don't believe the hype man.
It is aggrivating because people say oh your gay and I am like no I am not. Then they think that I am denying my girlfriend. PEOPLE GROW the F up!
I found an old article taht i thought was interesting. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030613075252.htm
Conformity is the jailor of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK
Your blog was very insightful. Thanks for trying to break stereotypical ideas and trying to stop the hatred cycle. Unfortunately, we are a society that is driven by fear and anyone who is different usually becomes a scapegoat. It’s sad, but look at history…
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I couldn't have said it better myself!
I completely agree.<3
I'm bisexual and I've been in a relationship with one guy for over a year and a half.
- Je suis moi.
I've read this before. It does make good points.
"I am a Stephens Woman."
Your blog was excellent. And like Cherie said, I agree completely and totally.
Great points. Thank you for sharing, and debunking the rumors!
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