Is there a middle road? (Bisexuality)

Bisexuality. It's an ambiguous label. Its meaning is highly debated among critics in both straight and gay communities. Some have called bisexuality a transition phase between being straight and gay. Others say it is simply an indication of a person's sexual confusion. And then there is the phrase coined by some members of the homosexual population: "You are either gay, straight or lying."

Despite these skepticisms, studies reveal millions of men and women in the United States identify themselves as being bisexual.

In 1948, IU sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey conducted studies using a "sexual continuum" to conclude that the majority of American males are bisexual to some extent. A 2002 survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 1.8 percent of adult males ages 18 to 44 identify themselves as bisexual.

People identify themselves with specific sexual identities for many different reasons, such as behavior, desire and emotion. Last summer, a group of psychologists published a study that looked at only one specific aspect: sexual arousal patterns in bisexual men. The study's results have cast even more doubt on whether, as far as physical arousal is concerned, true bisexuality exists in men.

http://www.idsnews.com/story.php?id=32037

Just from my own experiences and observations.

all of the friends that I have that say they are bisexual, I believe them. What ever blows your skirt up.

is what Gavin Arthur calls them; "every man's wife and every woman's husband" Read "The Circle of Sex"

There were a few threads on DU about that several months ago.

Also:

"The research was so based on physical reactions," said Michaela Martin-Almy, a May IU graduate and the immediate past president of IU's GLBT student union OUT. "And we know it to be true that is never the sole indicator or attraction and emotions and sexual feelings."

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In other words, being gay straight or bi does not just mean, "what gives you a woodie."