Well now that you say that you have "preference swings", it makes a lot more sense how this study might be... missing something.

I suppose the best thing would be to test a large group of "bisexuals" multiple times to see if their preferences change. Until then, tacos!

Please don't take offense to this, Dino, but from the way you talked in the masturbation thread about how you just go find someone to screw whenever you're horny instead of masturbating, you sound like you may just be, well, doing exactly that--not caring who it is or what sex someone is just so you can relieve your physical desires. Not exactly the same thing as being bisexual, as Jacob pointed out somewhere.

But you say you're emotionally attracted to both sexes, so I guess that could be enough to clear that up.

oh snap, Amber just threw down the gauntlet of debate, you two must now fight to the death

Nooo! Don't incite junk, not even humorously! The road to Hell is paved with humorous suggestions of debate. Or summat.

Anyway, she conceded in the last sentence. Conceded? That's a horrible word for it. Argh. Can't think good.

I did think about that whole preference swing thing in relation to this study, but the site claims that "three quarters of the bisexual men had arousal patterns identical to those of gay men; the rest were indistinguishable from heterosexuals." For one thing, statistically, if their preferences vary equally between men and women, shouldn't half of them have been attracted to men, and the other half to women? Or perhaps there would be a portion attracted equally to both? Of course, there are all kinds of things that could skew that. Meh. I'm just throwing stuff out here.

When did I become the Devil's advocate? :dead:

Great avatar, Amber. You and your dolphins.

I was thinking the same thing about the 50/50 split, but until we do more trials there's no way to know whether it was a statistical anomaly or not.


short posts ftw

Heh, perhaps it's cause I ommitted this little fact; I didn't just go screw any old person, I screwed my boyfriend/girlfriend. I'm unconventional like that. :p During periods of singleness, hornyness is something that I just let pass, it annoys me but it encourages me to get out there and meet people.

Ah. Well, just to show what gave me that impression:
"Whoever" just doesn't sound like something one would call a girlfriend or boyfriend that you care about.[/hijacking thread (for now at least)]

Well, whoever I'm attracted to at the time is the person I'm in a relationship with, unless I've found someone else. There wouldn't be much point in me being in a relationship with them otherwise would there?

I'd agree with Amber with the misinterpretation thing.

I've been thinking about the study and about a few instances i've heard about where a Fruit gets married, has kids, but is still a Fruit. He instead titles himself 'Bisexual', even though if he and his wife ever split, he'd never go with another woman.

This, is called, 'Kidding yourself'. Though, i still might try it, if not to have offspring, heh.

One of my best friends is bisexual and from what she's said, I think that most bisexuals are misunderstood. From what I've heard from other bisexual friends, there definitely is a genuine attraction to both females and males. It's pretty much borderline homosexuality/heterosexuality, not a greedyness for sex.

Every single sexual prefrence other then straight is misunderstood. Those idiotic homophobics don't bash on gays for nothing... same goes for all other sexual prefrences.

What I'm sick of are those ppl who r always saying if your a girl it's ok (girl on girl action) but if your a guy that's gross. it shouldn't matter, and for those ppl who don't even support it at all well what I say is if you have feelings for someone or love someone it shouldn't matter what there pyshical body is, but there soul, so we have to love them for who they are. were all humans. (most of us anyway :p ) so I think bisexual and gay is just labels. anyone no matter how straight you are could possibly fall for the same sex, and same if your gay you could fall for the opposite sex. not always likely but always possible

Good overperspectives only drag on until you admit the truth, Good God I've heard very weird stories, like a guy who wished he was a girl just so he could be lesbian. Yeah, on and on, I know a bi girl, but she has a boyfriend. Uhhh...yeah, whatever

I disagree.

I'm willing to agree with him. Though I doubt very much I'll fall for another male. *Comforts heartbroken Hobo*

The prospect of reading almost a hundred posts scares the willies out of me, even if it's a great subject, so I'll just answer the original question by saying I respect bisexual people as being people who are physically attracted to members of both sexes. Hetero- and homosexual people often get confused when they find themselves attracted to a member of the unexpected sex, but I know that's fine and normal, so it makes perfect sense that there's a vast middle ground to cover between the two monosexual extremes.

That said, I don't think for one instant there aren't swarms of people calling themselves bisexual to get attention. They probably believe themselves, too. I'm positive I know a few.

EDIT:
It's not so much that it's a possibility for any given person. It's more that there's a possibility, because it happens so often in a large number of people, that one might be susceptible to the same anomaly. It's just tricky to know whether it's a possibility or not unless it actually happens.

That's AS Statistics 1 talking. Sheesh.