pt. I Understanding bisexuality -- 1. Bisexuality Now -- 2. Men: Stories across the Bisexual Continuum -- 3. Women: Stories across the Bisexual Continuum -- 4. Generational Rebellion -- 5. Who Is Bisexual? -- 6. Straights Having Sex with Each Other -- 7. Why Romance Matters -- 8. How Many Bisexuals Are There? -- pt. II The sexual and gender spectrum -- 9. Pansexuality -- 10. Fluidity -- 11. Genderqueer and Nonbinary -- 12. Gender Variance and Gender Toxicity -- pt. III Bisexuals are not all the same -- 13. Race and Ethnicity Matter -- 14. Bi in the Country -- pt. IV Beyond a singular bisexuality -- 15. Bisexualities: What Needs to Change -- 16. Postidentity Revolution.
Summary
"... In [this book], noted scholar of youth sexuality, Ritch Savin-Williams, brings bisexuality to centerstage at a moment when Gen Z and millennial youth and young adults are increasingly rejecting traditional labels altogether. Drawing on interviews with bisexual youth from a range of racial, ethnic, and social class groups, he reveals to us how bisexuals define their own sexual orientation and experiences--in their own words. Savin-Williams shows how and why people might identify as bisexual as a result of their biology or upbringing; as a bridge or transition to something else; as a consequence of their curiosity; or for a range of other equally valid reasons. With an understanding that sexuality and romantic attachments are often influx, Savin-Williams offers us a way to think about bisexuality as part of a continuum. He shows that many of the young people who identify as bisexual often defy traditional views, dispute false notions, and reimagine sexuality with regard to both practice and identity. Broadly speaking, he shows that many young people experience a complex, nuanced existence with multiple sexual and romantic attractions as well as gender expressions, which are seldom static but fluctuate over their lives. Savin-Williams provides an important new understanding of bisexuality as an orientation, behavior, and identity. Bi shows us that bisexuality is seen and embraced as a valid sexual identity more than ever before, giving us timely and much-needed insight into the complex, fascinating experiences of bisexual youth themselves." -- "The Zoomer generation has created a postidentity revolution by expressing their substantially complicated understanding of bisexuality, which includes sexual, romantic, and gender fluidity; pansexuality; genderqueer and gender non-binary identities; and a host of other ways of experiencing and describing sexual, romantic, and gender aspects of the self"--
