Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

by Julia Shaw

Bisexuality isn’t mysterious, threatening, or performative . . . or even cool, woke, or transcendental. It is a normal part of human sexuality. Yet, even in the twenty-first century most of us still assume that people are straight until proven otherwise.

A way that bisexual researchers often talk about this is that the bi in bisexual means two, but the two are not men and women, they are same and other.

Bisexuality is] the potential to be attracted, romantically and/or sexually, to people of more than one [gender], not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.”