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Bisexuality: The Myths And Medical Truths

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Sexuality: Bisexuality and Not Gay In our society an individuals sexuality means more than just who they prefer to have sex with. A whole type of subculture usually comes along with it whether it is straight, LGBT, or a mixture of them. The stereotypical, for example, straight men culture of masculinity and sports. After watching “Interview with Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men” and “Bisexuality: The Myths and Medical Truths” I learned that when a person deviates from the norms of their preferred sexuality, they are met with negative out comes. In the case of female bisexuality, their imagine suffers by the way society looks at them. In “Bisexuality: The Myths and Medical Truths” bisexual women are commonly
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