Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality

Martin S. Weinberg; Williams, Colin J.; Pryor, Douglas W.

ISBN 10: 0195084829 / ISBN 13: 9780195084825

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1994

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Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean dark blue boards with pale gray cloth spine, dark blue lettering on spine. No bumping or fading. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 437 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one very short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.Near Fine Results of the first major study of bisexuality. Winberg, Williams, and Pryor explore the riddle of dual attraction in this study of 800 bisexuals, homosexuals and heterosexuals living in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195084829
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195084825
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good+
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Based on 10 years of extensive research, this study examines how bisexuals construct their lives and what bisexuality can tell us about human sexuality in general.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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, and surveys provided a wealth of data about the nature of bisexual attraction, the steps that lead people to become bisexual, and how sexual preference can change over time. They found that heterosexuals, more often than homosexuals, become bisexual; that bisexual men and women differ markedly in their sexual behavior and romantic feelings; that most bisexuals ultimately settle into long-term relationships while continuing sexual activity outside those relationships; and they also explain why transsexuals often become bisexual. Moreover, the authors discovered that as the AIDS crisis unfolded, many bisexual men entered into monogamous relationships with women, and bisexual women into more lesbian relationships. Recent media accounts attest that a growing number of researchers and writers are narrowing the fundamental cause of sexual preference to a single factor, biology. But if, as this study shows, learning plays a significant part in helping people traverse the boundaries of gender, if past and present intimate relationships influence their changing preferences, and if bisexual activity is inseparable from a social environment which provides distinctive sexual opportunities, then a mosaic of factors far more complex than those previously considered must be entertained in explaining the fuller spectrum of sexual preferences. Dual Attraction is one of the most significant contributions to our understanding of sexuality since the original Kinsey reports and Bell and Weinberg's 1978 international bestseller, Homosexualities. It is must reading for all those interested in the study of sexual behavior--especially now, since the onset of AIDS.