Bisexuals Have An Interracial Preference
Especially when dating someone of the opposite-sex
As such, Inter-Orientation opposite-sex couples may be disproportionately more likely to have multiracial children than couples comprised of monosexual lovers (whether straight or gay).
Comments, feedback, suggestions, etc welcome.
Lesbians have a sexuality preference
the relationship between bisexual women and lesbians is generally more antagonistic than that of gay men and bisexual men (Eliason, 2001; Steinman, 2001).
Straight men are more accepting of bisexuality in lovers than straight women (Dodge et al., 2016) — though this may be due more to straight men desiring bisexual women than due to straight men becoming more accepting of bisexuality as an identity (Mary Rachel Nedela, 2019).
On Confer and Cloud (2011)
“Straight women indicated that they were less likely to continue a relationship after their partners had exposed himself as bisexual by having an affair with a man.
A man’s sexual infidelity with another man, rather than with another woman, may trigger a stronger “behavioral immune system” (Schaller & Park, 2011) response from his female partner.
Therefore, straight women are less likely to forgive a partner’s same-sex infidelity compared to a partner’s opposite-sex infidelity (Confer & Cloud, 2011).”
By → Andrew Franks (2015) Bisexuality Revealed through Infidelity Elicits Behavioral Immune Response in Women, Journal of Bisexuality, 15:3, 346–356, DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1051609
Hoang, M., Holloway, J., & Mendoza, R. H. (2011). An empirical study into the relationship between bisexual identity congruence, internalized biphobia and infidelity among bisexual women. Journal of Bisexuality, 11(1), 23–38.
“Bisexual women had a higher rate of infidelity with their male partners (62.5%) than female partners (10.5%), regardless of whether the affairs were with men or with women
The rate of infidelity with women partners was also comparatively low (10.5%), which challenges the stereotype that bisexual women inevitably cheat on their lesbian partners, with men.”
(Hoang et al., 2011)
Bisexuality, it is most often combined with homosexual identities in analysis…
which is weird because it could just as easily be combined with heterosexuals…
People who are half gay & half straight being combined with homosexuals is the sexuality version of
hypodescent (see Obama descriptions in the news)
(Dodge, Reece, Gebhard, 2008; Israel, 2018)
Karner et al (2014): bisexuals value the same parts of relationships — intimacy, commitment, love, communication, affection, and passion — as many other straight or long-term couples.
Garelick et al. (2017): People in bisexual relationships tend to show more awareness of and willingness to discuss the role of gender in a relationship and gendered behaviors compared to non-bisexual relationships, which may affect common relational conflict issues such as division of household labor, which may in turn affect relationship satisfaction
Bisexuals as Half Straight & Half Gay [Sierra Stein, 2020]
“being “on the fence” puts bisexuals in a stage of marginalization such that they are viewed as experimenting and untrustworthy (Ault, 1994). Because a bisexual person in a relationship with someone of a different gender will appear straight, there is privilege in these kinds of relationships when compared to homosexual relationships that will always appear nonheteronormative.
Not Gay Enough For Lesbians
Qualitative research has found that many homosexual people, particularly lesbian women, are fearful of a bisexual partner breaking off the same-sex relationship in favor of an opposite-gender partner, and they are therefore more likely to reject and deny bisexual partners or pressure partners to identify differently to create a pretense of monosexuality (Gonzalez, Ramirez, & Galupo, 2017; Israel, 2018).
This imagery of being on the fence emphasizes the beliefs that a bisexual person will eventually fall off fence to either side as they enter a long-term relationship and “become” gay or straight based on their relationship. It also insinuates that bisexuality can only exist if attraction between similar-gender and othergender people is perfectly even, further limiting the permissible definition of bisexuality (Fairyington, 2008; Klesse, 2011).
Counterfeit Intimacy
GamerGirl’s dramaturgical performance of inauthentic intimacy when interacting with male avatars (Foote 1954; Goffman, 1959). The emotional labor associated with this “counterfeit currency in interpersonal relations” (Foote, 1954, p. 162) means attempting to appear more sexually attractive than the other rival women avatars around the same free-roam zone.
It is worth it if he’s influenced by it long enough to optimize the tangible resource extraction from the avatars that are most likely to be ‘tanks’ (male avatars) & thus provide assistance with a dungeon, boss, etc.
What are the selfie patterns among bisexuals, lesbians, & gay men?