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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In my personal experience, the term "bisexual" doesn't really exist outside of the gay community (and I'm assuming urban areas.) People for whom the gay rights movement is culturally alien, say a minority religious sect, don't differentiate between people who experience same-sex attractive exclusively and not exclusively. It's all gay and it's all bad.

[–]jiljol 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They might not employ the nomenclature, but they are most definitely aware of what an opposite-sex attraction entails. This is the reason why gay conversion therapy now operates under the name of "Sexual Attraction Fluidity Exploration in Therapy" (SAFE T), which is, for all intents and purposes, a "Gay-to-Bisexual" conversion that utilizes queer theory talking points. The goal is no longer to get rid of a person's homosexuality, but to "achieve" what is essentially a bisexual orientation. Anything is better than exclusive same-sex attraction as far as these groups are concerned.