For many women dating a bisexual man is still a taboo, but a research suggests they can be better lovers, fathers and partners.
Thanks to years of hard work by LGBT activists, people in certain corners of the world feel more comfortable about coming than ever before. A recent survey found that 43% of 18 to 24-year-olds don’t identify as gay or straight; while another piece of research has suggested that women are never heterosexual, only gay or bisexual.
Dating a man who identifies as bisexual remains a taboo. A few taps of Google drags up countless pieces dissecting the question: would you date a bisexual guy? And Amber Rose, the public figure who is well-known for standing against slut-shaming and having a sex-positive attitude, recently said she would not date a bisexual man. “I wouldn’t be comfortable.
Meanwhile, a survey by Glamour magazine found that almost two-thirds of women wouldn’t date a man who has had sex with another man.
But by seeing bisexuality as a deal-breaker, heterosexual women might not only be unwittingly dodging perfectly decent partners, but the best.
Research has found that men who are bisexual — and feel comfortable being out — are better in bed — and the relationship develops — more caring long-term partners and fathers. Some women who took part in an Australian study even said they would never be able to go back to dating straight men at all. It turned out that straight men were the ones with more emotional and misogynistic baggage.
This is partly due to the fact that as these men tried to understand their sexuality, they also questioned the most negative aspects of masculine character traits: including aggression.
They also were less likely to value unequal and traditional gender roles, according to Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, senior lecturer in Social Diversity in Health and Education at Deakin University, Australia and the co-author of the book Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men. To make their findings, she and researcher Sara Lubowitz studied 79 Australian women who had been with bisexual men.
