Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!well!ptsfa!rob From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Anonymous posting: a bisexual's thoughts on bisexuality Message-ID: <819@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:05:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfa.819 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:05:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:01:40 EDT References: <424@bbncc5.UUCP> Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 33 In article <424@bbncc5.UUCP> anonymous writes: >SOME THOUGHTS ON BISEXUALITY > >Yes its the worst of both worlds, but its also the best of both >worlds. I can go out on a beach and enjoy watching twice as many >beautiful bodies as the average person. Just because someone is attracted to members of both genders, it doesn't follow that s/he is attracted to twice as many people. I don't enjoy watching all men and friends of mine who are less "picky" than me enjoy watching a broader spectrum of men at the beach than I do. Seems to me that someone who is relatively "unpicky" but attracted to members of only one gender may in fact enjoy watching more people at the beach than a "picky" bisexual. I think our culture leads us to think of our attraction simply in terms of the gender of the object of our attraction. The terms we have for categorizing sexual attractions are based solely on gender, more specifically the sameness or oppositeness of gender. Gender DOES play an important role in our sexual attractions - which is to be expected since gender is the most salient characteristic of a person. But other features of a person are important, too. -- +--------------+-------------------------------+ | Rob Bernardo | Pacific Bell | +--------------+ 2600 Camino Ramon, Room 4E700 | | 415-823-2417 | San Ramon, California 94583 | +--------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | ihnp4!ptsfa!rob | | {nsc,ucbvax,decwrl,amd,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob | +--------------------------------------------------------+