Julia Shaw

prejudicial views that bisexual women are “fence sitters” who are “dangerously untrustworthy because of their associations with men.”30 Again, bisexuals were seen to be sleeping with the enemy. But in this case the enemy wasn’t straight people, the enemy was men.

Bisexual women were seen as failed lesbians at best and sexual predators at worst.

The genetics suggest that it is an oversimplification to assume that the more someone is attracted to the same sex, the less they are attracted to the opposite sex.”

already in the fifties people realized that not all animal sexual contacts had to do with reproduction, and that this focus was—as Kinsey wrote—“a distortion of the fact which appears to have originated in a man-made philosophy.”