Bisexuals and AGP/AAP Pseudobisexuality

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[–]ElectricSheep 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If I was only attracted to women and myself, I wouldn't call myself bisexual, I'd call myself ill, or a fetishist. I'm attracted to other men and women, which in my opinion, is the definition of bisexual. What you're describing is AGP full stop, no need to invent new language to get around it or feel special.

Also, I hate how often we get dragged into fetishist / trans discussions. I don't really understand how we became the whipping boy for justification for all of their weird shit. Not a judgment on you, OP, I know you're just asking questions, but an annoyance with those groups in general.

[–]usehername[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks, Sheep. I understand and agree with your grievances, but I felt this topic was important to discuss because of the word often used to describe it: pseudobisexuality, which concerns us.

I don't really understand how we became the whipping boy for justification for all of their weird shit

I think it's because there are a lot of fetishists with such severe fetishes they appear to no longer be monosexual who attempt to cram themselves into a description of a normal sexual orientation.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In my goal of facilitating I would like to provide some orientation data for various phenomena.

Furries: 84% non-heterosexual identity:

"Of the male furries in our sample, 143 (42.8%) identified themselves as bisexual, 106 (31.7%) as homosexual/gay, 53 (15.9%) as heterosexual/straight, and 9 (2.7%) as asexual. The remaining 23 (6.9%) participants chose the response “other,” and the most common explanation was that they identified as pansexual."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1303-7

BDSM: 46.4% non-heterosexual identity:

"Of the 268 participants who responded to an open-ended prompt assessing sexual orientation, the majority identi- fied as heterosexual (53.6%) or primarily heterosexual with some qualification provided (14.6%), such as ‘straightish’, ‘mostly straight’ and ‘straight with a little flexibility’. Approximately one-quarter of the respondents indicated a sexual minority orientation (21.1% bisexual, 2.6% gay, 1.8% lesbian and 2.6% queer), and 3.6% of respondents used a BDSM role as their sexual orientation (e.g. ‘top’ or ‘slave’).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19419899.2012.700028

Trans: Overall 82% non-heterosexual identity.

Trans women: 6% asexual, 20% bisexual, 27% gay/lesbian, 16% pansexual, 6% queer, 19% heterosexual, 6% other. Trans men: 7% asexual, 12% bisexual, 12% gay/lesbian, 15% pansexual, 24% queer, 23% heterosexual, 5% other.

https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf

EDIT:

United States general population: Non-heterosexual identity: 3%.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/sexual_orientation/ASI_2018_STWebsite_Tables-508.pdf

[–]PeakingPeachEater 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing these stats, I will have to look further into them later when I am off work Gatito!