Bisexuality Not Transitionality
Tuesday January 29th, 2008 in Bisexual, Desire, Doing It, Info, Interesting Articles Elsewhere, Pleasure, Sex, current affairs, current events, romance and relationships | Comments Off

(c) Bisexuality Resource Center
Recently Lisa Diamond, a renowned sexuality researcher, published a study through the American Psychological Association dispelling the myth of bisexuality being a transitional phase for women. Her 10 year study found that bisexual women held a steady attraction towards both genders, as well as remained longer in committed relationships. Furthermore, these wonderful fence sitters appeared to interpret lesbianism as being more flexible in behavior than they did with heterosexuality. While some women in the study changed their sexual identity at times, they generally went back to identifying as bisexual or “unlabeled.”
This is a really exciting study that shows how flexible sexuality and identity is. How it is dynamic and always-evolving, rather than a stagnant label that we apply to our forehead in adolescence with super duper crazy glue for the rest of our lives. While some would have an argument against touting monogamous relationships as something to excel towards, I still like the finding that bisexually identified women are more likely to be in a monogamous relationship for the mere fact that it disproves the myth that bisexual women are unstable, greedy, or just unable to maintain a committed relationship. It would definitely be interesting to see a similar study but regarding polyamorous relationships. My classmate Sunny is currently doing his thesis on poly triads, when he is finished I will surely bug him to let me publish a summary of the results on this here blog.
For all you sex geeks, here’s a link to the pdf of this article: link.
