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Dapper_Fellow
May 23, 2012, 5:15 AM
So this book was published in 2010, so I didn't know if maybe there was already a forum post on it, but here is a link to a review: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6516&cn=400

The book is called "Dare...To Try Bisexuality"

From what the review indicates this book is a clumsy foray into a subject matter that is still extremely taboo to discuss. While I am happy to see a book discussing bisexuality at all, I am rather disappointed that it fails to give equal weight to male and female bisexuality. It also discourages me in that the review indicates that the book does not discuss bisexual love or romance, just sex. I may have to pick this one up through an inter-library loan, even poorly written material on the subject of bisexuality can expand my worldview by allowing me to see a side that I otherwise would not. Kind of like watching Fox News to try and fathom the depths of absurd logic that a far-Right worldview can reach.


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æonpax
May 23, 2012, 7:02 AM
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The book is pop psychology for the dim-witted...which means it may actually make a smash hit on TV. Here's a review on the book I agree with;


"I was hoping for better.

This book is, at best, a silly piece of popcorn. At worst, it tries to glamorize the worst stereotypes of bisexual people and the practice of bisexuality: that it is all about having multiway causal swinger orgies, that bisexuals will hit on anyone (even you!) they find attractive, and the only reason why someone isn't having bisexual sex is because they just haven't tried it yet.

For people who already understand their own bisexuality, or the bisexuality of someone close to them, this book is at best eye rollingly silly.

For people who are curious, want to learn, or are struggling to understand their own bisexuality or the bisexuality of someone close to them, this book is dangerously wrong and misleading." Source - http://www.amazon.com/review/R1TNJTD8YYQEKP

darkeyes
May 23, 2012, 7:12 AM
Had it recommended to me by a guy at work.. then me sister who has read it said not to bother.. so I didn't..