Life as a bisexual woman

Description:But bisexual women, specifically, experience significantly higher rates of violence than lesbians and straight women. Like those who flee the tumults of city life for quieter and less complicated pastures, bisexual women may seem destined, in the eyes of gay women, to trade the grit and hardships of queer life for the suburbs of heteroville. Homosexuality and bisexuality — the idea that our sexual preferences make up our personhood — is a Western import and it was imported when we bashed down our Bibles and said that having sex with the same gender made you immoral. I think the biggest challenge I have is the constant sexualisation and fetishization. Because we have heterosexual relationships we are seen as privileged yet they discard the fact that our sexuality is rendered completely invisible. I have yet to find a wholly welcoming and accepting space for bisexuals and I live in Brighton, which is meant to be the queer capital of the UK.

Views: 5261 Date: 2018-08-02 Favorited: 48