Bisexuality

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Bisexuality (also known as swinging both wayz, or playing for both teams) refers to romantic or sexual attraction to both males and females. Contrary to popular myth, bisexuals rarely are attracted to both genders equally, and normally have preference for one or the other. The Kinsey scale, developed by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, provides for variances in attraction for one sex or another, although quite simplified. The conventional wisdom on the matter is that women are more likely to be bisexual than men, though many believe (a stance generally considered incorrect by sex educators) that bisexuals are actually homosexuals in denial.

Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., in his book Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality; a clinical approach^[1] seems to advocate for a very similar scale to Kinsey's. He states, "Each individual falls somewhere along the heterosexual-homosexual continuum, possibly moving from one direction to the other during different life stages." This heterosexual-homosexual continuum is remarkably similar to Kinsey's, and suggests that the reparative therapy model is not so much changing homosexual orientation, but simply changing the activities of bisexuals, a theory supported by follow-up studies. ^{[citation needed]}

The concept of bisexuality is related to pansexuality, which assumes more than two genders or gender expressions.

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1. ↑ http://www.narth.com/docs/repair.html