Are we entering a bisexual revolution?

[biblkman]

Well the past year or so i've noticed more and more web sites, blogs, chat rooms and groups for bisexuals, either for dating, sharing experiences, social get togethers, porn and literature. I've even heard a few people i know are bisexual. Being bi myself i love the open ness people are having with themselves, now there more people i can relate to.

[edmann35]

I think it is the new IN thing personally.
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Thats why so much media attention to it.
that bisexuals exist.
I mean we existed before the verification....

[elian]

I hope so, I think that rigid gender roles have caused more harm than good. I have been reading this book..

http://www.amazon.com/Lovingkindness-Revolutionary-Happiness-Shambhala-Classics/dp/157062903X

..and I think being able to open your mind up to a special kind of love is what it's all about. I guess not EVERYONE will ascribe to this philosophy but I really think this is the way to move forward for me, and for many other hurting people.

We have to learn to triumph together instead of keeping score and I think that LOVE is the only power in the universe that can transcend all of the hurtful suffering we go though on a daily basis.

I can't imagine that we would be able to move forward without learning to love people for who they are, rather than what is between their legs.

Even the banking system is now globally connected and I guarantee that we will be spending some of our "hard earned" (whatever that means) money to bail out Greece..it's a shame they are doing it more out of fear than love, but sooner or later, in more ways than one we will learn to work together or we will suffer for ANOTHER I-don't-know-how-many-more years...

It's funny they keep talking about the financial markets going up and down and I am thinking to myself, "Gee in this book it talks about waves of suffering" - since there is precious little REAL thing of value in banks anymore (mostly reserve notes now) what is finance, but power for the potential ideas and intentions of people..being bought and sold on the free market..

[bityme]

Well the past year or so i've noticed more and more web sites, blogs, chat rooms and groups for bisexuals, either for dating, sharing experiences, social get togethers, porn and literature. I've even heard a few people i know are bisexual. Being bi myself i love the open ness people are having with themselves, now there more people i can relate to.

I doubt that you can call it a revolution or even societal change. What we are probably witnessing is the fact that more entrepreneurs have realized there is a profit to be found in establishing the websites, etc. Of course, the offshoot of this is more ways for bisexuals to communicate with each other.

More than anything else, I think the result is that bisexuals are learning more about themselves and others who have the same or similar experiences and/or desires. From the standpoint of societal change about bisexuality, I believe we are still riding the coattails of the Gay and Lesbian movement, a good number of which don't believe we exist or are just going through a phase trying to make up our minds.

I think our success in the sexual revolution is still a long way off.

Pappy

[Jobelorocks]

I don't know if I would say that there is a revolution. I have met very few people who are openly bi and most of those who are not, are generally unfriendly to the bi community. So I haven't really seen signs of a revolution, but that can be just my neck of the woods.

[drugstore cowboy]

I doubt that you can call it a revolution or even societal change. What we are probably witnessing is the fact that more entrepreneurs have realized there is a profit to be found in establishing the websites, etc. Of course, the offshoot of this is more ways for bisexuals to communicate with each other.

More than anything else, I think the result is that bisexuals are learning more about themselves and others who have the same or similar experiences and/or desires. From the standpoint of societal change about bisexuality, I believe we are still riding the coattails of the Gay and Lesbian movement, a good number of which don't believe we exist or are just going through a phase trying to make up our minds.

I think our success in the sexual revolution is still a long way off.

Pappy

What sexual revolution? It's been over for decades. Yes more people are coming out or accepting themselves as bisexual but it was like this back in the 70s and 80s before HIv/AIDS during the actual sexual revolution as well.

As someone who actually lived through and was very active during the sexual revolution, the sexual revolution ended in the very early 80s when HIV/AIDS was discovered and it was on its way down in the late 70s when even then there were gay and bisexual men who were dying of AIDS but they didn't know what it was then.

As bisexuals we're not riding the coattails of the gay and lesbian movement as there was tons of bisexual activism in the 70s and 80s that I was involved in then.

No most gay men and lesbian women do not believe that bisexuality does not exist, that we're confused, that we can't make up our minds, or that we're just somehow in a phase.

[luvsgirlyclothes]

geez I hpoe so!!!!!!

[pepperjack]

I don't know if I would say that there is a revolution. I have met very few people who are openly bi and most of those who are not, are generally unfriendly to the bi community. So I haven't really seen signs of a revolution, but that can be just my neck of the woods.

agree w/u Jobe; we're 46% of the population strong but there's way too much secrecy & deception still going on; most bis are secretly so, me included.

[drugstore cowboy]

agree w/u Jobe; we're 46% of the population strong but there's way too much secrecy & deception still going on; most bis are secretly so, me included.

That's way too high of a percentage.

No way are that many people in the human population bisexual or bisexual but closeted or even in complete denial of their actual sexuality.

If that many people as you claimed were bisexual same gender marriage would be legal everywhere and being a bisexual or gay man would not be seen as a taboo or something wrong by many societies and cultures, and there wouldn't be nearly as much biphobia or homophobia in society.

Most people are heterosexual/straight and there's nothing wrong with this.

Studies have shown that people who are bisexual make up 10% or even as high as 15% of the human population while people who are gay and lesbian are a lower percent and people who are Transgendered or who have other gender issues are even lower and not even 5% of the population.

[goldenfinger]

I read a report from Harvard University some years ago which stated that 20% of people asked, admitted to a same sex experience.Take that 5% of the population is gay, that leaves 15% bi. I do believe that to very close to the truth.3 times more people are bi then gay.:eek:

[elian]

I would think that people are generally curious, and we all have hormones at one time in our life or another - I think a lot of people have experimented - either found they enjoyed it or they didn't - OR they couldn't even though they wanted to.. There is such a stigma around sex in general in Western Society...we've got it all wrong - sex shouldn't just be used for advertising, it's a natural part of life.

I still think a lot of this is cultural, there are some cultures that respect same sex relationships and transgendered folk as just being part of the way things are.

[pepperjack]

That's way too high of a percentage.

No way are that many people in the human population bisexual or bisexual but closeted or even in complete denial of their actual sexuality.

If that many people as you claimed were bisexual same gender marriage would be legal everywhere and being a bisexual or gay man would not be seen as a taboo or something wrong by many societies and cultures, and there wouldn't be nearly as much biphobia or homophobia in society.

Most people are heterosexual/straight and there's nothing wrong with this.

Studies have shown that people who are bisexual make up 10% or even as high as 15% of the human population while people who are gay and lesbian are a lower percent and people who are Transgendered or who have other gender issues are even lower and not even 5% of the population.
I just quoted the stat from an article I read just before joining this site and my personal lifetime sexual experiences coupled with my experiences on many other sites tend to confirm it's accurate; as I said, most bis I've encountered are secretly so, & that's because of homophobia, societal pressure, adultery; ur in denial, buddy; we're talking human nature here; people are most deceptive when it comes to money & sex.