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- From: (Jody Norman)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.193654.10401@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:36:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.152403.14397@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>, cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- (Howard Black) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1hv22dINN4ie@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- > >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > >> Once again - "Practice" has nothing to do with bisexuality.
- > >> Bisexuality is a sexual identity just like heterosexuality is.
- > >> You can be a celibate bisexual.
- > >
- > >maybe what we need is a better set of terms, that differentiate
- > >better between orientation and practice. I know myself, and probobly
- > >a lot of 'straight' people, are lacking in understanding in that
- > >area...
- >
- > Actually, I think Phil stated it about as clearly as it can be. In
- > fact, your own terms "orientation" and "practice" also are perfectly
- > descriptive.
- > You are het by orientation, so, if you have sex, it will probably be
- > with the opposite sex. A bi is oriented toward either sex. Acting on the
- > orientation is the way it's expressed, so acting in a manner contrary to
- > one's orientation feels unnatural because it is.
- > --
- > ******************************************************************
- > Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- > Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
-
-
- I tend to agree with the above -- that is, a bisexual doesn't necessarily
- practice sex with both sexes at the same time, but is instead open to doing
- so.
- I'm 95% sure that I'm bisexual, but I'm quite happily monogamous -- it's
- just
- that I can and do enjoy looking at attractive men while having a
- relationship
- with a woman. My guess is that I'm fairly typical in this respect -- the
- only
- way I'd have sex with two people at the same time, whatever their gender or
-
- orientation, is if both of them understood and cared about each other and
- me.
- But I can appreciate the confusion such practices or orientations could
- generate in either hets or bi-gay-les.
-
-