PRS#6: Robust evidence that bisexual men exist

The status of bisexual men and bisexual people in general have long and controversial history. Bisexual people were often accused of being promiscuous and untrustworthy, regarded as the ones sitting on the fence, not confident enough to come out as gay. Bisexual men were also considered as those who pass HIV onto women, due to their numerous sexual contacts and countless sexual male-partners. This all caused increased stigma toward bisexual people, even within the LGBT community. Research, especially those based on self-reporting methods, also cast a doubt on bisexuality in men, however those methods are prone to social influence and more valid methods are necessary. In 2020, the paper entitled ‘Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men’ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690672/) provided the new approach to study bisexuality in men and supported the hypothesis that they, indeed, do exist. 

Additionally, in this episode I’m talking about self-reporting methods to measure sexual identity such as Kinsey scale (https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/publications/kinsey-scale.php) and The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (https://bi.org/en/klein-grid).

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