"Party Bisexual" = "Recreational Bisexual"

[glantern954]

The party bisexual discussions made me recall seeing the information below around the net for the past year or so. I am not sure who "J.R. Little" is but every reference I have seen to this information includes that name. The new term "Party Bisexual" appears to just be a synonym for what is described below as a recreational bisexual, one of many different "types".



WHO IS BISEXUAL?
As you can see, there is no simple definition of bisexuality, and bisexual people are a very diverse group. There are several theories about different models of bisexual behavior. J. R. Little identifies at least 13 types of bisexuality, as defined by sexual desires and experiences. They are:

Alternating bisexuals:
may have a relationship with a man, and then after that relationship ends, may choose a female partner for a subsequent relationship, and many go back to a male partner next.

Circumstantial bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual, but will choose same sex partners only in situations where they have no access to other-sex partners, such as when in jail, in the military, or in a gender-segregated school.

Concurrent relationship bisexuals:
have primary relationship with one gender only but have other casual or secondary relationships with people of another gender at the same time.

Conditional bisexuals:
either straight or gay/lesbian, but will switch to a relationship with another gender for financial or career gain or for a specific purpose, such as young straight males who become gay prostitutes or lesbians who get married to men in order to gain acceptance from family members or to have children.

Emotional bisexuals:
have intimate emotional relationships with both men and women, but only have sexual relationships with one gender.

Integrated bisexuals:
have more than one primary relationship at the same time, one with a man and one with a woman.

Exploratory bisexuals:
either straight or gay/lesbian, but have sex with another gender just to satisfy curiosity or "see what it's like."

Hedonistic bisexuals:
primarily straight or gay/lesbian but will sometimes have sex with another gender primarily for fun or purely sexual satisfaction.

Recreational bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual but engage in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

Isolated bisexuals:
100% straight or gay/lesbian now but has had at one or more sexual experience with another gender in the past.

Latent bisexuals:
completely straight or gay lesbian in behavior but have strong desire for sex with another gender, but have never acted on it.

Motivational bisexuals:
straight women who have sex with other women only because a male partner insists on it to titillate him.

Transitional bisexuals:
temporarily identify as bisexual while in the process of moving from being straight to being gay or lesbian, or going from being gay or lesbian to being heterosexual.

[biecnal]

Recreational bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual but engage in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

I fail to see how the term Party Bisexual or Recreational Bisexual has any merit as a sexuality definition. Sounds to me like another junk term that will be used by the ultra conservative peeps as just another way of "gay bashing". (or bi-bashing, as it were.)

Alot of people do things they may regret while under the influences of drugs or alcohol. It makes no difference what their sexuality preference is.

Just my :2cents: .

Lance & Jess :bipride:

[Avocado]

The party bisexual discussions made me recall seeing the information below around the net for the past year or so. I am not sure who "J.R. Little" is but every reference I have seen to this information includes that name. The new term "Party Bisexual" appears to just be a synonym for what is described below as a recreational bisexual, one of many different "types".



WHO IS BISEXUAL?
As you can see, there is no simple definition of bisexuality, and bisexual people are a very diverse group. There are several theories about different models of bisexual behavior. J. R. Little identifies at least 13 types of bisexuality, as defined by sexual desires and experiences. They are:

Alternating bisexuals:
may have a relationship with a man, and then after that relationship ends, may choose a female partner for a subsequent relationship, and many go back to a male partner next.

Circumstantial bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual, but will choose same sex partners only in situations where they have no access to other-sex partners, such as when in jail, in the military, or in a gender-segregated school.

Concurrent relationship bisexuals:
have primary relationship with one gender only but have other casual or secondary relationships with people of another gender at the same time.

Conditional bisexuals:
either straight or gay/lesbian, but will switch to a relationship with another gender for financial or career gain or for a specific purpose, such as young straight males who become gay prostitutes or lesbians who get married to men in order to gain acceptance from family members or to have children.

Emotional bisexuals:
have intimate emotional relationships with both men and women, but only have sexual relationships with one gender.

Integrated bisexuals:
have more than one primary relationship at the same time, one with a man and one with a woman.

Exploratory bisexuals:
either straight or gay/lesbian, but have sex with another gender just to satisfy curiosity or "see what it's like."

Hedonistic bisexuals:
primarily straight or gay/lesbian but will sometimes have sex with another gender primarily for fun or purely sexual satisfaction.

Recreational bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual but engage in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

Isolated bisexuals:
100% straight or gay/lesbian now but has had at one or more sexual experience with another gender in the past.

Latent bisexuals:
completely straight or gay lesbian in behavior but have strong desire for sex with another gender, but have never acted on it.

Motivational bisexuals:
straight women who have sex with other women only because a male partner insists on it to titillate him.

Transitional bisexuals:
temporarily identify as bisexual while in the process of moving from being straight to being gay or lesbian, or going from being gay or lesbian to being heterosexual.

I notice that people who are bisexual. monoganous and aren't arsed about switching or not switching gender between relationships aren't listed.

[glantern954]

I would say that not any ONE of these describes me exactly either. Its just more labels, who needs them. Just more lines drawn in the sand. The more we divide the weaker we get.

Pride 2015
"We're Here, We're Concurrent Bisexuals, Get Used to It! But we don't like those transitional bisexuals cause they are really gay....Oh and you Exploratory Bisexuals don't count either!"

[arana]

Can’t most, if not all of these terms be used to describe anyone if you take out the bisexual in the label?

[Driver 8]

Back when I ran the bi support group, we used to use material like the Kinsey Scale or the Klein Grid to start discussions. Even an imperfect tool can be an icebreaker - "I'm sort of this and sort of that, I used to date a girl who was this other thing."

That said, I don't think I'd use this list for those purposes, because the terminology is loaded to the point of being a bit insulting. For example:

Conditional bisexuals:
either straight or gay/lesbian, but will switch to a relationship with another gender for financial or career gain or for a specific purpose, such as young straight males who become gay prostitutes or lesbians who get married to men in order to gain acceptance from family members or to have children.

What use is the word "bisexual" if it describes people who are "straight or gay/lesbian"? And isn't "lesbians who get married to men in order to gain acceptance from family members or to have children" exactly the stereotype that's propagated in the lesbian community about bisexual women?

Integrated bisexuals:
have more than one primary relationship at the same time, one with a man and one with a woman.

Making monogamous bisexuals ... what, disintegrated? Segregated?

Recreational bisexuals:
primarily heterosexual but engage in gay or lesbian sex only when under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

We never talk about "recreational gays" or "recreational straight people" or "recreational lesbians," but plenty of them are getting drunk and having sex. What on earth justifies a separate category for people who get less inhibited when they're drinking? Everybody is less inhibited when they're drinking!

Sure, sometimes it's useful to distinguish between people with bisexual behavior (regardless of who they're attracted to) or people with bisexual attraction (regardless of how they behave.) I find it interesting, though, that none of these categories consider how the person identifies themselves - with the sole exception of "transitional" bisexuals, who, specifically, temporarily identify as bi.

I also find it interesting that Little has ignored these common groups:

"Monogamous bisexuals," let's say, who have relationships with men and with women, but with only one person at a time.

"Poly bisexuals," who may have a primary relationship and other secondary and sexual relationships, or relationships with multiple primaries, but don't determine who's primary and who's secondary based on gender. (That's different from Little's "concurrent relationship bisexuals," who only have primary relationships with partners of one gender.)

"Ideological bisexuals," who identify as bisexual despite not having a strong interest in sex or relationships, often due to a political or philosophical belief that everyone is or should be bisexual. (Also known as "just doing it to be trendy")

"Gender-blind bisexuals," for whom gender isn't an important factor in choosing a partner.

... you know, the more I look at this list, the stupider it gets. It's obsessive over the differences between the kinds of relationships a person has with women versus the kinds of relationships they have with men, and, apparently, if you have the same kinds of relationship with both, the only category for you is "integrated bisexual," because you obviously have one of each. Whatever.

[TaylorMade]

I don't like the further segmenting up of Bisexual. I mean, to me, it's always been clear- - the further labeling just makes me feel like you don't have to get to know them, just read the definition. Some people don't meet the definition. :rolleyes:

*TM*