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Title: Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality by Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, Douglas W. Pryor ISBN: 0-19-509841-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A thesis before its time?
Comment: Perhaps, considering a 2003 survey published in the Journal of Sex Research that concluded "heterosexuals dislike bisexuals more than gays, lesbians and most religous or enthnic groups," and that women tended to feel negative towards bisexual or gay men and women alike while men were more prone to rate bixsexual or gay men lower than they would bisexual or lesbian women. The earlier "Dual Attraction ..." coincidentally hints of similar findings, but goes significantly further than the more recent survey. Most notably, a distinction is made between the bisexual and gay male although both seem mostly to be lumped together in social and research terms. Maybe because of that, any serious study of bisexuality in particular is sparse. The bisexual male, then, is somewhat "invisible," accounting for the fact that most clinicial and social discussion and advocacy come from the bisexual female. And, consistent with the more recent study, the Indiana University sociologists behind "Dual Attraction ..." also come up with a reason that the bisexual male is apparently regarded beneath the gay male and lesbian and bisexual woman. The bisexual man, unlike the gay male, so the theory goes, is self-focused, preoccupied with sex and so sexually experienced with both genders that he feels superior to all, even the straight man. Add to that the apparent belief that bisexual men gave AIDS to the straight community, and the bisexual's social position plummets. Of course, the conclusions in "Dual Attraction ..." are pre-suppositioned on the hotly disputed Masters and Johnson opinion years earlier that sexual orientation is a choice rather than a biological pre-determinant. Even discarding that idea, however, "Dual Attraction ..." still comes out as something of a pioneering effort in acknowledging the existence and explaining the dynamics behind bisexuality. Perhaps no other published work has gone so far as this research. But is it relevant? Quite possibly, considering various surveys put between 25 percent and 75 percent the number of men in America having sex with other men.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bisexuality at Its Best!
Comment: This is, without a doubt, the BEST work I've ever seen on bisexuality. Kudos to Weinberg, Williams, and Pryor. Finally ... someone who understands.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that gave me a new point of view about sex...
Comment: This book gives a chance to accept a person for the person itself, and I see this as a better way to see and joy sexual and romantical live. Every man once in a while thinks as a bisexual...and if he takes some courage may cross the fear barrier...with the correct person...that may be as long as next door...boy
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Title: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu ISBN: 1555831745 Publisher: Alyson Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber ISBN: 0415926610 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Bisexual Option (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies) by Fritz Klein MD ISBN: 1560230339 Publisher: Haworth Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bisexuality: A Critical Reader by Merl Storr ISBN: 0415166608 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories by Kata Orndorff ISBN: 1884365094 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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