Archive for February, 2010

Feb
4
2010

Bi Curious

posted by Liam Reed at 11:59 am.

Late last night I came home and caught the end of Paranormal Activity. My roomies were watching it to determine just how much they could make fun of it within a single sitting. I believe the general consensus was that the movie would have been had the demon merely been a group of menacing squirrels.

Anyhow, after the movie we started talking about that rare breed of the LGBT community that is so sparse that only the selected few have come across them in real life: the male bisexual.

It seems that we all know our fair share of bisexual women. The bisexual woman seems to be a very common breed that is actually running rampant across Illinois. For the sake of the argument, I’d like to define a bisexual as someone who not only is sexually interested in both genders, but has sustained relationships with both genders as well. Using this definition, have you ever really met a male bisexual?

I personally don’t know any male bisexuals. I know guys that have slept with women and men, but now they really tend to just focus on one of the two genders. There have been several studies on this topic. When showing groups of women who identify as bisexual pornography, special electrodes (or something) attached to their genitals showed sexual arousal during scenes of both women and men. However, when a similar study was done on bisexual men, the man would usually show a preference (so to speak) for only one gender.

One of my roommates has a theory: if bisexual men do exist, they can technically choose which gender they would like to pursue. And, in a society that puts so much pressure on creating spawn, why not just suppress any homosexual urges and focus solely on the heterosexual ones? After all, you’ll get a lot less flack for your sexuality and you can even join the army and kill terrorists like you’ve always dreamed of!

If this is true, why are women bisexuals so willing to form relationships with both? Sure, many men find lesbians hot, but lesbians are just as apt to receive discrimination out in public as a pair of guys are.

The guys I’ve talked to who have met bisexual men tell me that they’ve never actually dated a bisexual, but at most have fucked around with them. Is this bisexuality or is it just greedy? Or worse, is it a gay man not comfortable enough with his own sexuality that he feigns relationships with women and just gets his jollies off with guys after having a few Keystones too many.

Is the bisexual male a real creature or is he a mythical beast? The world may never know.

big_foot_print1.jpg

legendary print of the male bisexual

Feb
1
2010

Gay & Stressed

posted by Liam Reed at 12:46 pm.

I got an email from a friend of mine who is studying how LGBT students cope with stress in college. If you take the survey (assuming you’re 18+ and an LGBT undergrad) you could have a chance at winning some cash, so please take the survey! The following is information from Josh and the link to the survey:

Anyone who is 18, an undergrad and currently going to college (not limited to UIUC) is eligible to participate.

We are in need of LGBT students to participate in an online survey about the stress that they experience in college. It is important that we obtain data from as many LGBT students as possible so we are hoping that you will participate. Participation in the survey is voluntary and consists of filling out four short questionnaires over the course of the semester. Surveys are completed online and take about 15 to 20 minutes to complete. After each survey you will be entered in a drawing to win a $100 gift certificate at the end of the study or one of the $20 gift certificates given away during each round of surveys. For more details and to participate in the survey, please copy and paste the following address into your web browser:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/copingwithcollegesurvey

Josh Kingsbury, MS
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois
*This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Illinois