Bisexuals Bisexuality Renowned American Sexologist, Alfred Kinsey, hypothesized that people are not necesarily divided between homosexuals and heterosexuals. It's definition is perhaps more elusive than that of homosexuality. Ultimately, bisexuality, like homosexuality or heterosexuality, must be a self-applied description.
Bisexuality means an emotional and physical attraction to both men and women.
If all the points between 2 and 5 on Kinsey's scale are seen as bisexual, it is likely that there are more bisexuals in the population than homosexuals. Despite this, there has rarely been visible bisexual communities. Bisexuals are looked upon with some suspicion by some gays and lesbians. This may be a result of fear in the gay communities that the gains they have made in achieving social acceptance could be offset or trivialized by straights lumping them together with bisexuals. It could be resentment that bisexuals can move more easily in the straight world than homosexuals, or there may be a feeling that bisexuals are simply too cowardly to make the final self-identification as gay or lesbain.