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Bisexuality

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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. —Kate Millett

Bisexuality is the romantic attraction, sexual attraction or behavior toward more than one gender. The term is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward two or more genders.

Bisexuality is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. People who have a distinct but not exclusive sexual preference for one sex over the other may identify themselves as bisexual.

Could you imagine wanting to fuck everybody you meet? Think of all the phone numbers you'd accumulate! You might as well just walk around the White Pages under your arm. ~ George Carlin
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. ~ Sigmund Freud
A decade and a half on, I know the certainty of myself. Bisexual. Sometimes a partner, often a lover, always a friend, refusing to discriminate along gender lines. It keeps my brain ticking over. I'll never get bored. If this is a phase, I don't want it to end. ~ Yasmin Greenhalgh
"He's my boyfriend. Charlie's my boyfriend. I... I still like girls, but, um... We... I like boys too. And me and Charlie, we're... We're going out. And I just... wanted you to know. [...] It-it's called bisexuality, if you've heard of that."
"I have heard of that. I wasn't born in the 18th century." ~ Heartstopper


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  • Heard she bisexual; she fuck what that girl. But boy, oh boy, fucking with me is a whole 'nother world.
    • 50 Cent, "A Baltimore Love Thing" (2005), The Massacre
  • Could you imagine wanting to fuck everybody you meet? Think of all the phone numbers you'd accumulate! You might as well just walk around the White Pages under your arm.

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  • Even though adult homosexuals have fought hard to win rights and liberties... too many people are still scandalized by the mere idea that youth discovering their gay orientation could be given the same liberties and possibilities as straight ones. Whereas the discovery of heterosexual desire is celebrated as the sign that "he's becoming a man" and therefore largely encouraged, without anyone seeing any sort of proselytizing in it, it's a completely different story when it's homosexual desire that's surfacing. Everything happens as if gays and bisexuals under 18 didn't exist, or at least shouldn't exist.’
    • Dr. Michel Dorais, Mort ou fif

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  • I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
  • And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say--the last and the most profound.

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  • Appropriate patterns of reproductive, gender, and sexual conduct are all products of specific cultures and all can be viewed as examples of socially scripted conduct. Western societies now have a system of gender and sexual learning in which gender differential scripts are learned prior to sexual scripts, but take their origins in part from the previously learned gender scripts... There are two important points: The first is that both gender and sexuality are learned forms of social practice, and the second is that looking to "natural differences" between women and men for lessons about sexual conduct is an error.
    • John Gagnon, "The Eplicit and Implicit Use of the Scripting Perspective in Sex Research", 1990
  • The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary factors. . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into heterosexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heteorsexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts.
    • Rolf Gindorf, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event, 1977

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  • Nick Nelson: Mum.
    Sarah Nelson: Mm-hm?
    Nick Nelson: You know Charlie's like my best friend.
    Sarah Nelson: If you're going to ask if he can come along on holiday this year, the answer's no, 'cause I've already booked the ticket.
    Nick Nelson: No, that's, um, that's not what I was gonna say. [stops, hesitates] He's my boyfriend. Charlie's my boyfriend. I... I still like girls, but, um... We... I like boys too. And me and Charlie, we're... We're going out. And I just... wanted you to know.
    Sarah Nelson: Oh, baby. [hugs Nick] Oh, thank you for telling me. I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like you couldn't tell me that. You don't have to say you like girls if you don't.
    Nick Nelson: No, I, um... It's definitely not just girls. It-it's called bisexuality, if you've heard of that.
    Sarah Nelson: [laughs] I have heard of that. I wasn't born in the 18th century. How long've you known?
    Nick Nelson: Well, um, me and Charlie started going out, couple months ago. But I started liking him way before that.
    Sarah Nelson: [hugs Nick] Oh, I love you.
    • Heartstopper (TV series), Season 1, Episode 8 "Boyfriend." Directed by Euros Lyn, written and created by Alice Oseman and based on her webcomic and graphic novel of the same name.
  • A decade and a half on, I know the certainty of myself. Bisexual. Sometimes a partner, often a lover, always a friend, refusing to discriminate along gender lines. It keeps my brain ticking over. I'll never get bored. If this is a phase, I don't want it to end.
    • Yasmin Greenhalgh, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World (2009) by Robyn Ochs (editor) & Sarah E. Rowley (editor), Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, paperback 2nd edition, p. 89-90

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  • The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
  • Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
  • Labeling is a tried and true method of eliminating the threats of uncertainty, ambiguity, fear. A familiar old myth illustrates this. In the form of an ill-contrived joke, it says that a man may father many beautiful children, be a transcendent lover of women, earn numerous degrees at the highest university level, discover a cure for an incurable disease, earn his country's most bespangled award on the field of battle, but should he fellate one penis, he will be forever known thereafter not as a loving parent, a lover, a scholar, a Nobel Prize-winner, a brave soldier, but as a "cocksucker."
    There is another myth that, though not primarily sexual, is equally absurd in assigning a negative connotation, based on prejudice to begin with, to a mere fact of life. In many parts of the country, a person with "one drop" of Negro blood is considered to be a black. Why is this person not seen as white at least in degree? The answer is as simple as it is profane. A threat is best dealt with if it is dismissable. In the world of sexual choice the homosexual is the black. He is a "fag", a "fairy," a "cocksucker." We need not take him seriously. Somehow, God seems more secure in his heaven if we are not burdened with the element of degree, when we are judging threatening behavior, especially sexual behavior. Hence, if the bisexual is really a homosexual with a screw loose, his or her social and psychological obliteration is a comfort and a safeguard to all. This holds true for the homosexual as the heterosexual because existence, however negative its connotations, is preferable, better, a higher state, than nonexistence.
    • Fred Klein, The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978), New York: Priam Books, first edition paperback, p. 8-9
  • So far we have looked at bisexuality as it has been and as it is now. The temptation would be to crane the neck around a distant corner to bring a view of what will be. I'm afraid, though, that a presumption of such foresight would be empty. I don't know what will be. No one does. I believe, though, that the present affects the future just as the past has affected the present. There are dynamics in the present shaping the time that is to come. If we cannot perceive the bisexual future through these factors, we can list and break them down in a spirit of inquiry rather than prophecy.
    • Fred Klein, The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978), New York: Priam Books, first edition paperback, p. 167
  • The bisexual's dilemma is twofold: his/her interactions with society on one hand, and his/her internal problem on the other. Until now, the overwhelming social attitude toward the bisexual has been one of denial. This is a classic attitude of large groups of people toward anyone different. But how different are bisexuals? Now many people, some of them famous, are broadcasting their bisexual natures. Many people are illuminating what we now know to be bisexual behavior. The door to the closet will never close so firmly again.
    If bisexuals are a problem to others, the others are even more of a dilemma to bisexuals. And the bisexuals themselves are the ones who live with the condition. Both groups of people should profit from better understanding in the future. To understand the bisexual is to understand ourselves better, no matter what our sexual orientation. And with understanding comes growth- as individuals and as a society. Again, in a word- progress.
    • Fred Klein, The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978), New York: Priam Books, first edition paperback, p. 177
  • Sex. What a powerful three-letter word. What a joy. What a burden. After millions of years living with it, we are as awed and baffled by its power as we are by the meaning of life itself. If we ever learn the truth of that meaning for sure, the understanding of sex and its practice by human beings will be an essential key to the mystery. Milleniums have passed in darkness. The future- for people of all varieties of human sexuality on the Kinsey scale- looks brighter. Bisexuality is now staking its claim upon our serious consideration as a real force for bringing about that brighter future. Such, at least, is the premise of this book.
    • Fred Klein, The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978), New York: Priam Books, first edition paperback, p. 177

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  • It is my opinion that while the word bisexual may have its uses as an adjective, . . . it is not only useless but mendacious when used as a noun.
  • When you lie with a woman, at least so girls say,
      You shit the same moment you come.
    But what do you do, Polycharmus, I pray,
      When a lovers stiff prick stops your bum?
  • The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. . . we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.
  • Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

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  • I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.
    • Robyn Ochs, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World

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  • Oh my GOD, you are NOT bisexual! Don't be stupid! I mean, I went to a bar mitzvah once, that doesn't make me Jewish!

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  • "I have a dick and it gets hard then that's good. I walk down the street and if I see a girl and my dick gets hard that's good and if I see a boy that's good too and same with seeing a chicken. If my dick gets hard and I want to fuck it then that's good. People like to attach labels to themselves, straight, gay, S&M, it's just so simple. It doesn't matter what you do whether its horrible or mainstream or boring, you know what turns you on. So why the big brouhaha?"

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  • He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.

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