World News: Bisexuality: A Sexual Orientation in its Own Right

According to various sexologists interviewed, bisexuality is a sexual orientation in its own right.

"Bisexuality has often been associated with difficulty connecting sexually speaking. Sexual orientation is not a choice: it felt it lived. Funny, though, heterosexuality is so fundamentally rooted that does not question about it! "Says Stephanie Vermette, educator sexologist.

The "true" bi

Bisexuality is characterized by the ability to be emotionally and / or sexually attracted to persons of both sexes, and it alternately. However, it should define what a "true" bisexual.

"There are different types of bisexuals. First there is the homosexual who knows himself homosexual, but represses its orientation in the belief that his family would not accept it. There are also fun bisexuality. That is to say that a person may have some fundamentally hetero homosexual experiences, but it remains only to satisfy a fantasy, "says sexologist Marc-Andre Juneau.

"There are also bisexual, which needs both sexes. On the other hand, there is the bisexual person who chooses his partner for what it is, whether a man or a woman. In this case, the base premium on sex, "says Vermette.

There are few recent statistics about the number of quantization bisexual. The researcher Michel Dorais estimated in 1993 that found an average of 17% of bisexual men and 10.5% of bisexual women. His calculation was based on data collected over a period of 50 years by Kinsey, and Hite Janus.

Judged

"It's hard to tell. We always gave a negative face bisexuality. With gay and lesbian movement 40 years ago, we ended up associating their normality. But bisexuals live it differently. Is judged. I think it's because the world needs to secure labels, both for religion, political opinion that sexuality, "says Pierre concerns, sexologist.

The subject still seems somewhat accepted if we are to believe some comments on forums.

"In any case, if everyone is bi, I'm in another world and it is good like that ... I declare to yourself: everyone is ****ed up!" Wrote in response to certain patdum an article titled "Everybody is bi?".

Discrimination

The organization ensures that Montreal Unit Bi bisexuals suffer more discrimination and even homosexuals heterosexual.

A study from McGill University led by Dr. Brett Thombs announced in 2010 that young gays, lesbians and bisexuals are more likely to develop mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.

But statistics is confirmed only if a youth self-identifies as a homosexual or bisexual. If he had sex with men but he describes himself as heterosexual, no impact is found.

"You could see even in Roman times bordering on sexual behavior homosexuality. Bisexuality as homosexuality have long been repressed by the Catholic religion. Researchers trying to explain what sexual behavior (bisexuality), but we are in the process of marginalization, "notes Ms. Vermette.

"Many of the scenes are deleted if they do not fit representation of the elite. But when the tolerance level increases in a society, we see increasing numbers of bisexuals. We do not usually want to be different, but we can assume that bisexuality has always existed. Today, people are more open to hear, "says Juneau.

Marie-Ève Bourgoing-Alarie
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