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.
