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Dual Attraction Understanding Bisexuality

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ISBN-10: 0195084829

ISBN-13: 9780195084825

Edition: 1994

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: $30.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.914
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…    

Prefacep. vii
The Riddle of Bisexualityp. 3
Bisexual Livesp. 11
Bisexuals in San Franciscop. 13
Becoming Bisexualp. 26
Bisexual Typesp. 39
The Nature of Dual Attractionp. 49
Transsexual Bisexualsp. 59
Sexual Activitiesp. 66
Significant Othersp. 76
Marriagep. 93
Jealousyp. 107
Being """"Out""""p. 116
Bisexuality, Heterosexuality, and Homosexualityp. 133
Surveying the Sexual Undergroundp. 135
The Development of Sexual Preferencep. 139
Dimensions of Sexual Preferencep. 148
The Instability of Sexual Preferencep. 158
Sexual Profilesp. 166
Intimate Relationshipsp. 176
Managing Identitiesp. 187
After AIDSp. 197
The Emergence of AIDSp. 199
Bisexuals Face AIDSp. 209
Changes in Sexual Preferencep. 218
Change and the Transsexual Bisexualp. 230
Changes in Sexualityp. 239
Changes in Relationshipsp. 258
Adapting to a New Worldp. 273
Conclusions: Understanding Bisexualityp. 285
Notesp. 301
Tables for the 1983 Interview Studyp. 313
Tables for the 1984-85 Mailed Questionnaire Studyp. 361
Tables for the 1988 Follow-Up Studyp. 412
Indexp. 431
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