Honesty's the best policy
The main thing is to be as honest with partners as you can. This does mean, though, that you have to deal with being 'queer' – and with all the stigmas attached. If you're afraid of having a same-sex experience, and you stay 'in the closet', it's not going to help your relationships. Experimentation is fine, as long as you make it clear what's in it for the other person.
Sex-wise, being bisexual's a good deal for you and your partner... you can 'borrow' from sexual experiences with men and with women, learning how to give and get the best. However, as for people of all persuasions, remember safe sex, particularly if you're sleeping with different partners.
Some people think… Bisexuals have a ball, getting the best of both worlds, and a second-helping of sex life.
The truth is… Being bisexual doesn't mean you fancy everyone, and bisexuals aren't constantly 'up for it'.
Some people think… It's okay to be gay (they're born that way), but bisexuals choose to be perverse, they spread the HIV virus with their indiscriminate sex lives, and they make a mockery of things such as marriage and the family.
The truth is… You shouldn't pay heed to such nonsense. People like this always like to have a scapegoat.
Some people think… I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.
The truth is… Being bisexual doesn't mean that you can't be monogamous, or that you will be looking 'the other way' all the time. That's just as likely or unlikely in any sort of relationship.
A survey of 229 heterosexual undergraduate students found that they may be less willing to accept bisexuals, particularly male ones, than they are to accept gays or lesbians.
"The men were more hostile to bisexual men than they were to bisexual women," Eliason says. "But women rated bisexual men and women about the same."
Male participants were also more likely to agree with stereotypical statements about bisexuals than were female participants. Those statements included "bisexuals tend to have more sexual partners than heterosexuals" and "bisexuals tend to have more sexual partners than gays or lesbians."
Archives of Sexual Behavior, indicate that bisexual men, as a group, were the most unacceptable to survey respondents when compared to bisexual women, gays and lesbians. Male bisexuality was described by these students as "very unacceptable." Bisexual women, on the other hand, were listed as "very unacceptable".
Another common misconception is that homophobia and biphobia are the same thing.
