The Bisexuality Report

[Brian]

From the British Psychological Society

30/05/2012

The lack of a bisexual community could be negatively impacting the health of men attracted to both males and females. This is the suggestion of new research (http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/22451.html) published in the Journal of Bisexuality, which showed guys believe a lack of such a group - that would enable them to be more involved with likeminded adults - significantly affects their wellbeing.

More... (http://www.bps.org.uk/news/bisexual-stigma-and-adverse-mental-health)

- Drew :paw:

[tenni]

"Helen Bowes-Catton's research in this community has found that people feel 'at home' in bisexual spaces in a way that they don't in their daily lives, and that it gives them an invaluable breathing space away from biphobia and bi invisibility."

I agree with the above statement. There is a need for "bisexual spaces". This is different from spaces that includes LGT, asexuals, hetero allies etc. spaces imo. There may be a need for a space for all sexual minorities but there is also a need for bisexual spaces.

[void()]

From the British Psychological Society

30/05/2012

The lack of a bisexual community could be negatively impacting the health of men attracted to both males and females.

ROFLMAO!

No, really?

This is akin to "news" that poverty exists and bites crusty toe jam. If you are X, you don't need media or fancy reports to tell you X has its conditions. Better off walking up to a brick wall and telling it, "you're made of brick according to a recent gallop poll."

And people say I have trouble percieving things, am nuts, stupid. Man on a stick, I tell ya, really doing good when everybody runs around pointing out the obvious which I saw twenty years ago. LOL People do genuinely vex the crutches out of me.

[Gearbox]

Well you've got to keep these 'psychologists' busy, see Void.LOL Keeps them off the streets and doing drugs etc!:bigrin:

We all need to feel 'included' and will seek out like-minded. That's why swingers, BDSM'ers, rubber lovers etc get together. But with bisexuals it's not that 'cut n dry'. It's not so much a sexual thing, as an identity thing.
I personally can't fully relate to gays that I meet. I don't mean the biphobic ones! We get on just great, but I often feel as if I'm a substitute singer in an established choir.lol They KNOW the words, they hit the right notes etc, and I'm doing Jazz as they do Motown. Same with hetero's.

I missed those courses of 'being straight' & 'being gay'. So I'm under qualified. It doesn't help that courses on 'how to be bi' are protested against.
Well I kind of know what I mean!:tongue:

[tenni]

Yes Void
It may be clear to some of us but not all of us..let alone the organizations that have the money to improve access for us but spend it on "other" sexualities. (who think that we are all the same and so we can fit in to what they provide).

Gear
"I personally can't fully relate to gays that I meet. I don't mean the biphobic ones! We get on just great, but I often feel as if I'm a substitute singer in an established choir.lol They KNOW the words, they hit the right notes etc, and I'm doing Jazz as they do Motown. Same with hetero's."

What no disco? :yikes2: Donna Summers would be happy to dance/sing with you...even her "last dance" :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG07rYStCjw

[wanderingrichard]

I'm with Void on this one. Tell me something i dont already know about bisexual life.

and to think that taxpayer money was probably spent on this....... :eek2:

[æonpax]

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The UK report was interesting and full of common sense information. I did go peruse through the end notes and noticed some of their data was pretty old. Still, nothing wrong with their summaries.

If anything, it goes to prove that bisexuals are indeed as eclectic as they come. One size does not fit all.

[darkeyes]

and to think that taxpayer money was probably spent on this....... :eek2:
Not so far as I know..and if they did? Good on them...better than spending it on more fucking wars and helping their rich nob m8s stay rich nob m8s...

[Herculoid Poirot]

In the past I really felt like a didn't have a home in either the gay or straight communities. I was seeing a woman at one time and her friends started to shun her because she was going out with someone bi. And we were monogamous!