Jun 14 2008
Is Bisexuality Contagious
I mentioned in a previous article that it seems like a lot more people are coming out as bisexual. And that’s a good thing, but I realise that there are a lot of people still out there who think, that people are “choosing” to be bisexual because they think it’s cool. And that bisexuality like an infectious disease is somehow contagious.
Well it probably won’t surprise you to learn that this is not the case, bisexuality is not contagious, however I do think ‘coming out’ is. Have you ever noticed that when one person ‘comes out’, someone else they know often follows? And another and another? Of course the conservative US evangelists like to blame the first person (and the media’s tolerance of LGBT people) for corrupting the others. But
the truth is everyone who came out was always Bi. They just got the confidence to do so from seeing someone else do it.
That’s quite a positive endorsement of society and I’m rather pleased to be able to write something upbeat about bisexual tolerance. Still for me the battle grounds for bisexual recognition have never really been with Joe public, but instead with the media for their regular hazing of bisexuals and with Stonewall who whilst claiming to represent us, constantly and wilfully ignore us.
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I was just talking about this with a friend of mine. He said that bisexuality had become a fad and that most people who call themselves bisexual are really straights/gays who’ve made out with someone of the same/opposite sex and use that as a claim to bisexuality. I agreed that there do seem to be a lot more bi folks out there these days, but I don’t think it is a fad. I think the environment right now is relatively safe for sexual difference, so people are more apt to (openly) explore the complexity of their sexuality. I think that what people are doing sexually is no different than what people twenty years ago were doing, but the social climate has changed in such a way that people can embrace their sexual selves a little bit more.
Or maybe I’m really gay and just don’t know it.
coming out is contagious. it inspires and motivates people to live out their lives openly and honestly.
BITHEWAY–If I come out as bi-sexual I’ll have caught it from a toilet seat.
I agree people get encouragement from other people.
C