Re:Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for ...
by native_samples on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:27AM
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Is that actually true? The last data I saw on this indicated that there are a huge number of people falsely claiming to be bisexual. That is, relationships amongst the population claiming to be bi are overwhelmingly hetero. The young especially think there are (real or perceived) social benefits from claiming to be gay or bisexual even when they're not.
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Re:Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for ...
by morbia on Saturday February 12, 2022 @02:25PM
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Do you have the data for this? My experiences have been precisely the opposite. I have spoke to many bisexual men married to women on Grindr who were looking to cheat on their wives (or fantasised about doing it).
My experiences point to a lot of bisexual men living in the closet and are ashamed of what they are. I think guys in that situation typically want the heterosexual lifestyle of kids and marriage, but the thrill of sex with a guy on the side. There have been very, very few guys I've seen on there who are married to a woman who are able to openly explore sex with men with their wife's consent.
I can't really comment on women who are bisexual however.
Re:Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for ...
by native_samples on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:43AM
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Were those men genuinely bisexual, I wonder? Gay men pretending to be straight and ending up in family marriages is a very long standing issue, or was at least, I thought the "lavender marriage" was dying out.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/over-80-percent-of-...
"The massive 2013 Pew Research LGBT Survey found 84 percent of self-identified bisexuals in committed relationships have a partner of the opposite sex, while only 9 percent are in same-sex relationships"