This week is “bisexual’s week”, and today it happens to be “bisexuality day”. Probably a lot of people have not heard of these two names, I will give you a brief introduction.
Bisexual to celebrate the day, this concept, is in 1999 by the United States three well-known bisexual activists, the very beginning it only in a smaller range, but under the insider to continually strive for and promote the festival celebration soon spread to the United States, and then spread to all over the world, such as Canada, Britain, Japan and other many countries now have someone in advocating the holiday.
On this basis, in 2014, BiNet USA, a non-profit organization for the promotion of bisexual, will each year on September 23 this week is set to “bisexual awareness week”, intended to remind you the existence of bisexual, let the society pay more attention to bisexual people, including bisexual man and bisexual women. If you think about it, maybe you are the same, and we might say to the surrounding people, “are you gay?” But the concept of bisexuality is rarely mentioned, and in our subconscious, they seem to be part of homosexuality, or not at all. And that’s what this holiday is all about. And even if aware of the existence of bisexual, a lot of people will still have a lot of misunderstanding for them, I made some common misunderstanding, can take a look at, these biases, do you have?
Myth 1: bisexuality doesn’t exist. They’re just potential homosexuals. Now in the world, it is less clear how many bisexuality, but before the United States has done a survey and found that the number of bisexuals at least accounted for 2% of the total, which is about 3 million people, suggesting that bisexuality doesn’t really exist. The whole society’s rigid definition of male image and the rejection of bisexuality have made many people afraid to come out openly, and dare not seek medical help. Another survey has found that the number of relatively few and bisexual compared, they infected with HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases of probability it is far too high, the cause of the high probability, is to ignore their society, yet they dare not seek proper medical help.
Myth 2: bisexual people suffer less stress than homosexuality. In fact, studies have shown that bisexual people are significantly more likely to self-harm or commit suicide than gay or adult heterosexual people. And don’t like our high attention of gay and bisexual people is often ignored by people, it is also easy to aggravate some of their mental disease risks, such as eating disorders, etc., this is especially obvious in women. A recent survey found that 37.3 percent of bisexuals said they had suffered from depression, compared with 17.2 percent of heterosexual people. And because the whole society is blind to bisexuals, they can’t turn to society for help.
Myth 3: bisexual people just get straight when they’re with the opposite sex. Open out of the closet the bisexual actress Evan Rachel Wood’s, she is the “western world”, once said that a famous sentence: “remember, bisexual does not represent us at the middle stage of straight and curved. It has its own characteristics. But it is also pointed out that many bisexual people end up choosing to be with the opposite sex. For this, it is thought that this is related to the whole society’s fear and rejection of bisexuality. At the same time, bisexuals who can about is very limited, the LGBT population probably accounted for about 4.1% of the total population, but whether gay or lesbian, they are also very exclusive bisexual, don’t want to date with them, so the bisexual people can choose the company die is very few.
Myth 4: bisexuals are more likely to be “polyamory”. The love of diversity, colloquially speaking, is a state of being able to accept any form of affection, you know… But some people always have the misconception that “bisexual” is the equivalent of a “threesome relationship“, which is especially common in some straight men. This kind of misunderstanding doesn’t know what to say. By definition, “polyamory love” refers to the state of being in a romantic relationship with multiple people at the same time. “Bisexuality” means that people of both sexes are sexually attracted to each other. The definition can be a little boring, but you can see that they really don’t matter. Any sexual orientation is likely to develop into multiple relationships, but bisexuality doesn’t necessarily tend to be “poly relationship“.
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