Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life

TLDR

Bisexuality is examined as an erotic, social, and cultural phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about love, sex, gender, and identity, provoking intrigue and discomfort across all orientations. The book investigates whether bisexuality represents a third option between heterosexuality and homosexuality or whether it fundamentally challenges the notion of sexual identity. The analysis draws on classical myth, biology, literature, psychoanalysis, film, and music to explore schoolgirl crushes, threesomes, a possible bisexual gene, and the compatibility of bisexuality with marriage.

Abstract

This is a study of bisexuality as an erotic, social and cultural phenomenon, which sets out to challenge preconceptions about love, sex, gender and identity. The idea of bi-sex intrigues, titillates and provokes. It unnerves men and women, straight and gay alike. Is bisexuality a third choice between hetero- or homo-sexuality? Or is it something that questions the very concept of sexual identity itself? This book explores these questions. It examines such topics as schoolgirl (and boy) crushes, sexual threesomes, the possibility of a bisexual gene and the compatibiltiy of bisexuality and marriage, via classical myth, biology, literature, psychoanalysis, film and music.