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Dual Attraction Understanding Bisexuality

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ISBN-10: 0195098412

ISBN-13: 9780195098419

Edition: N/A

Authors: Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, Douglas W. Pryor

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For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of sexual behavior an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin Weinberg, Colin Williams, and Douglas Pryor provide us with the first major study of bisexuality. Weinberg, Williams, and Pryor explore the riddle of dual attraction in their study of 800 residents of San Francisco. Fieldwork, intensive interviews,…    
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List price: $54.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

ER is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northeastern University. MW is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. His research has focused on a variety of topics including models of female sexuality, foot fetishism, intersexuality, sadomasochism, sex work, and bisexuality. Recent work has focused specifically on the social and interpretive worlds of men who have sex with animals.ER is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northeastern University. MW is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. His research has focused on a variety of topics including models of female sexuality, foot fetishism, intersexuality, sadomasochism, sex work, and bisexuality. Recent work has focused…    

Preface
The Riddle of Bisexuality
Bisexual Lives
Bisexuals in San Francisco
Becoming Bisexual
Bisexual Types
The Nature of Dual Attraction
Transsexual Bisexuals
Sexual Activities
Significant Others
Marriage
Jealousy
Being """"Out""""
Bisexuality, Heterosexuality, and Homosexuality
Surveying the Sexual Underground
The Development of Sexual Preference
Dimensions of Sexual Preference
The Instability of Sexual Preference
Sexual Profiles
Intimate Relationships
Managing Identities
After AIDS
The Emergence of AIDS
Bisexuals Face AIDS
Changes in Sexual Preference
Change and the Transsexual Bisexual
Changes in Sexuality
Changes in Relationships
Adapting to a New World
Conclusions: Understanding Bisexuality
Notes
Tables for the 1983 Interview Study
Tables for the 1984-85 Mailed Questionnaire Study
Tables for the 1988 Follow-Up Study
Index