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RJS quoted in Edge New York article on bisexuality
Bisexuality - What's in a name?
by Scott Stiffler, EdgeNY.com, Monday March 17, 2008
Is Everybody Bi?
Labels: they're simple, fun and convenient; but how many same sex experiences does it take to make a hetero a homo? Can an opposite sex experience turn a gay into a bi? Plenty of good science tells us there's a big difference between sexual expression and sexual identity.
Brian Dodge, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University (which has an ongoing partnership with the nearby Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction), says "We come out of the womb unprogrammed. Kinsey was the first to back that up with behavioral data. There are very few dichotomies in life - particularly in terms of human behavior; so he was not surprised that he had large numbers of people admitting to having a same sex experience."
The Kinsey Scale asserts that "Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual . . . nature rarely deals with discrete categories . . .The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects." The scale, which first appeared in 1948's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," uses a person's sexual history to rate them on a scale of zero to six (zero being exclusively heterosexual, 6 being exclusively homosexual).
"If you look at the Kinsey Scale, which has been validated by a number or other sexuality studies, almost half of all men have some form of same sex experience in their lifetime that leads to orgasm," says Ron Jackson Suresha, editor of two works on bisexuality ("Bi Men Coming Out" and "Bi Guys: First Hand Fiction"). "Clearly, though, a lot of people don't go around saying they're bi."
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But how can you form an identity when the concept of bisexuality, by its very nature, replaces absolutes with infinite variety? "We don't know what bisexuality looks like, so when we come across it, we don't recognize it" says Suresha - a self-identified Kinsey Scale five who "always had a certain amount of attraction to women, though my preference is for men. I've been told over and over again that bisexuality is a myth, that people who say they're bi are deluded or lying. So, for many years, I bought into that. This is a common experience with a lot of gay men who are told you have to be either gay or straight. The possibility of bisexuality seems so remote."
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Kinsey Zero through Sixty:
Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey
A literary anthology commemorating
the sexagennial (60th) anniversary of the 1948 publication of
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin
Ron Jackson Suresha, guest editor
In honor of Alfred C. Kinsey's monumental scientific publishing achievement, the Journal of Bisexuality is presenting a double issue focusing on Alfred C. Kinsey's work, life, and legacy, and his effect on and relationship with bisexuality and all aspects of bisexual and mainstream culture.
Contributions to this stellar collection of outstanding writing include the last surviving member of Kinsey's original research team, Dr Paul Gebhard, as well as leading names in the fields of sex research, GLBTIQA activism, and bisexual writing.
This double issue of Journal of Bisexuality (8:3-4), Jonathan Alexander, editor, is made possible by the independent sponsorship of the American Institute of Bisexuality, a nonprofit organization unaffiliated with The Kinsey Institute or Indiana University.
Read more about Kinsey Zero through Sixty.
Bi Men:
Coming Out
Every Which Way
Edited by Ron Jackson Suresha
& Pete Chvany, PhD
Haworth Press, 2006 (softcover/hardcover)
2006 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
in Bisexuality Literature
Bi Men: Coming Out is a "book every clinician should read"
to force them to re-examine their views of sexuality and more fully appreciate the brilliance of Alfred Kinsey's work exploring the full spectrum of human sexuality."
- Gregory M. Jones, Division 44 Newsletter
Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Issues
A Division of the American Psychological Association
Bi Men: Coming Out
named on Pam's House Blend's list of Top Ten Bi Books!(December 2007)
6. Bi Men: Coming Out
edited by Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany
"Bi men have their own issues, namely exclusion and derision by Gay men and the utter invisibility of bisexuality in men outside of the pervasive "sleazy married guy." The men in this anthology come to bisexuality from various life paths, some previously identified as straight, some as gay. Some came out as bisexuals at an early age and others are still closeted, even to their closest friends. They talk about bisexuality in the era of AIDS and the intersection with bear culture (the authors previously did a bear anthology). As a bi woman, this book helped me understand the male half of the bi community better."
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Bears on Bears:
Interviews & Discussions
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Alyson Publications, 2002
"I wasn't expecting Bears on Bears to touch me on such a deep level. . . . My personal connection to bears never occurred to me until I read this book. In fact, I think it should be required reading for anyone interested in gender studies because it's about bears, and then it is about so much more than bears."
- Village Voice
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