Julia Shaw

I am bisexual, and I have long felt myself wanting more. I have yearned to tether myself to a solid foundation of history and research,

There have been suspicions that bisexuality is probably just a trend for almost fifty years.

It’s not us-versus-them anymore. There’s just more and more of us.”

This means that a gay rights activist coined the word heterosexual as a by-product of creating the word homosexual.

A way that bisexual researchers often talk about this is that the bi in bisexual means two, but the two are not men and women, they are same and other.

Roses are an example of a popular bisexual plant.

According to Klein, this is asking: “To what degree does a person live in the heterosexual social world? Does he or she have bisexual or homosexual friends, go to homosexual bars or clubs, and so on?”

Research by psychologist Corey Flanders and colleagues published in 2017 found that in a small sample of 18-to-30-year-olds who identified as bisexual or pansexual, bisexuality was considered an umbrella term encompassing all “nonmonosexual people and identities.”

I like how American bisexual activist Robyn Ochs eloquently put it in 2009: “[Bisexuality is] the potential to be attracted, romantically and/or sexually, to people of more than one [gender], not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.”

When we asked 18 to 24 year olds to choose what best described their sexuality in 2015 just one in fifty (2 percent) said they were bisexual. Our latest data . . . shows that one in six (16 percent) now choose this option—an eight-fold increase.”