"... Other than blatantly prudish indignation from a small faction of outspoken moral conservatives, Kinsey's scientific work is considered just as valid and respected today as ever. ... There were definitely limitations and shortcomings in Kinsey's research, as exists in all pioneering scientific discovery. But despite some minor statistical flaws and distorted claims about how Kinsey's own sexual behavior affected his research, the vast majority of his published findings about human sexual behavior have been essentially validated. Certainly any rational person who believes in empirical science must accept those facts."
More het guys are discovering the pleasure of bending over
Considering how "liberated" gay men are supposed to be, I'm amazed by how many of my brothers refuse to recognize that some straight men like to get f*cked. ...
Ron Suresha, who has written extensively on bisexuality, believes that most adults of both sexes have experienced some form of anal sex: "We know how things have progressed," he says. "There's been an increase . . ."
But how can you form an identity when the concept of bisexuality, by its very nature, replaces absolutes with infinite variety? "We don't know what bisexuality looks like, so when we come across it, we don't recognize it," says Suresha - a self-identified Kinsey Scale five who "always had a certain amount of attraction to women, though my preference is for men. I've been told over and over again that bisexuality is a myth, that people who say they're bi are deluded or lying. So, for many years, I bought into that. This is a common experience with a lot of gay men who are told you have to be either gay or straight. The possibility of bisexuality seems so remote."
A literary anthology commemorating
the 60th anniversary of the 1948 publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin
Ron Jackson Suresha, guest editor
In honor of Alfred C. Kinsey's monumental scientific publishing achievement, the Journal of Bisexuality is presenting a double issue focusing on Alfred C. Kinsey's work, life, and legacy, and his effect on and relationship with bisexuality and all aspects of bisexual and mainstream culture.
Contributions to this stellar collection of outstanding writing include the last surviving member of Kinsey's original research team, Dr Paul Gebhard, as well as leading names in the fields of sex research, GLBTIQA activism, and bisexual writing.
This double issue of Journal of Bisexuality (8:3-4), Jonathan Alexander, editor, is made possible by the independent sponsorship of the American Institute of Bisexuality, a nonprofit organization unaffiliated with The Kinsey Institute or Indiana University.
Bi Men: Coming Out is a "book every clinician should read
to force them to re-examine their views of sexuality and more fully appreciate the brilliance of Alfred Kinsey's work exploring the full spectrum of human sexuality."
- Gregory M. Jones, Division 44 Newsletter
Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Issues
A Division of the American Psychological Association
Bi Men: Coming Out
named on Pam's House Blend's list of Top Ten Bi Books!(December 2007)
"Bi men have their own issues, namely exclusion and derision by Gay men and the utter invisibility of bisexuality in men outside of the pervasive "sleazy married guy." The men in this anthology come to bisexuality from various life paths, some previously identified as straight, some as gay. Some came out as bisexuals at an early age and others are still closeted, even to their closest friends. They talk about bisexuality in the era of AIDS and the intersection with bear culture (the authors previously did a bear anthology). As a bi woman, this book helped me understand the male half of the bi community better."
"I wasn't expecting Bears on Bears to touch me on such a deep level. . . . My personal connection to bears never occurred to me until I read this book. In fact, I think it should be required reading for anyone interested in gender studies because it's about bears, and then it is about so much more than bears."
- T. Taormino, Village Voice
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