1. Alternating bisexuals: may have relation with a man and then after that relationship ends,may choose a female partner for a subsequent relationship, and may go back to a male partner.
2. Circumstantial bisexuals: primarily heterosexual, but will choose same sex partner only in situations where they have no access to other-sex-partner, such as when in jail, in the military, or in a gender-segregated school.
3. Conditional bisexuals: have primarily relationship with one gender only but have casual or secondary relationships with people of another gender at the same time.
4. Concurrent relationship bisexuals: either straight or gay/lesbian, but will switch to a relationship with another gender for financial or career gain or for a specific purpose, such as young straight males who become gay prostitutes or lesbians who get married to men in order to gain acceptance from family members or to have children.
5. Emotionally bisexuals: have intimate emotional relationships with both men and women, but only have sexual relationship with one gender.
6. Integrated bisexuals: have more than one primary relationship at the same time, one with a man and one with a woman.
7. Exploitary bisexuals: either straight or gay/lesbian, but have sex with another gender just to satisfy curiosity or "see what it's like".
8. Hedonistic bisexuals: primarily straight or gay/lesbian, but will sometimes have sex with another gender primarily for fun or purely sexual satisfaction.
9. Recreational bisexuals: primarily heterosexual but engage in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or or alcohol.
10. Isolated bisexuals: 100% straight or gay/lesbian now but has had at one or more sexual experience with another gender in the past.
11. Latent bisexuals: completely straight or gay lesbian in behavior but have strong desire for sex with another gender, but have never acted on it.
12. Motivational bisexuals: straight women who have sex with other women only because a male partner insists on it to titillate.
13. Transitional bisexuals: temporarily identify as bisexual while in the process of moving from being straight to being gay or lesbian, or going from being gay or lesbian to being heterosexual.
2 comments:
I know this is an old post... but it's frustrating because of I see this same categorizing under headline "the Types of Bisexuals" in many places on the net and it just seems wrong to me. For a few reasons:
1. Would you really call it as "being bi as sexual orientation", if a person took part in bisexual acts without actual primary desire to do it (for example, examples 4, 7, 12, 13)? If they didn't do it out of pure will, without secondary goals?
2. Many of these "categories" are prejudiced. For example, do you really need a category for a person that has secondary relationships? It's not "one type of bi", it's called being unfaithful or polygamous! You sure have this same "category" for gay people as well? Do you need a category for a person who needs to release their sexual pressure despite the target? It has more to do with "finding the best substitute for the real thing" than truly being attracted to the target of sexual act! Do you need a category for person who's behavior changes due to substance abuse, we all lose grip of ourselves and do crazy stuff when drunk or high?! Are you saying that substance abuse is "one type of bisexuality"???
3. I was looking for a same kind of nice "what type of personality or appearance s/he has" chart than you can find for straight and gay people. Something that helps me to identify myself, place myself among people. But no, apparently bisexuals need to be categorized by their motives, history or insecurities instead. For someone like me, after years of self-contemplation, fear, stress and anxiety becoming to conclusion that I'm a bi and there's no other way around it, and FINALLY ready to move on and start looking for ANY KIND of relationship, this feels unnecessary and even hostile. I think bi-people need more support and positive images, less judging.
My apologizes for bad English, it isn't my native.
I find this article helpful because I am a heterosexual, I mean I date guys, but I love the idea of, female with female relationships. I wondered if there were other kinds of bisexuality because I know I only see myself dating guys, yet wondering what dating a girl would be like.
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