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A bisexual male monologue

As a bisexual, I often find people confused about what bisexuality really is, which naturally leads to all kinds of questions. In my experience, this confusion is understandable, but many of the questions raised out of curiosity are wildly inappropriate in time, place and manner. In this case, I'm reluctant to engage in conversation. That doesn't mean that I'm reluctant to engage in these discussions and ultimately answer these questions, but that I, like others, want to feel comfortable in the context of discussing them. During Bi visibility month, I wanted to make some of these issues public to help understand the source of the confusion and do my best to alleviate some of the confusion. So, I asked people to ask me their questions. I received these questions through social media; Please understand that these answers are my own and only reflect my experience and opinions as a bi person. I encourage other bi people to share their own answers! Where do you f

What would you do if you were bisexual?

Bisexuals seem to run into strange things all the time, but it just proves that this is a special and interesting group! As a bisexual woman, getting society to take our identity seriously is a challenge. In a world where women's relationships are constantly sexualized by the media, we face the same reaction almost every day. You must be doing this to get attention, to get men interested, or just sexually interested in women, not romantic. In the mass media, the relationship between women is overwhelmingly gendered. This is especially true in the film, where the two women play opposite each other in scenes that have neither logic nor reality. The scenes have a voyeuristic sense that we're looking at it from the perspective of a 14-year-old straight man. The success of these two women is not for their own pleasure, but for the joy of the audience. I'm not saying that every time two women have sex on screen it has to be profound and meaningful, but these scenes ten