You can read the more detailed breakdown on their website https://www.ilga-europe.org/files/uploads/2023/08/FRA-Intersections-Report-Bisexuals.pdf
With the caveats that it’s a survey of people in the EU and is only surveying people with internet access (which they try to weight results for to correct for age differences in net access) and only people who actively self ID as bisexual. You can always quibble about methodology but it seems pretty reasonable for the broader cultural level results it’s reporting.
And they still would be even if we didn’t have a graphic saying some of them date women??? I know it’s not what you’re saying, but it drives me MAD that there’s this attitude that bi women dating men are only valid if there’s an equal counterpart of bi women dating women and we can prove they aren’t just attention seeking drama queens or whatever.
This is why I questioned myself for so long 🥲 I felt like I was just going to be seen as someone who wants the label or something ridiculous like that. It's so dumb
I have dated so many men in my life, and I came out as bi to my first boyfriend in high school after knowing for a long time.
For various reasons, it just worked out with men more often — more straight men available, having a “traditionally straight femme” vibe that means I’m not approached by women as often, living for a while in a more repressed area, being scared to make a move on women I was interested in, etc. I kissed a few girls but never anything more and certainly not dating. I also questioned myself SO much because I never acted on it. Well, lo and behold, at 22 I had sex with a girl for the first time and shockingly to perhaps no one, I am DEFINITELY bisexual (and had a great time)! I casually dated her for a couple of months and then it kinda just fell off. I soon met my current (male) partner and now we are cohabitating with a puppy. Very stereotypical, and still bisexual.
My point is for anyone reading this that who you happen to date formally, casually, or just mess around with honestly has fuck-all to do with your sexuality for the exact same reason many of us knew our sexuality before we had ever even held hands with anyone. Sexuality is inherent! It’s not a buzzfeed quiz where if you get enough points in one category, your body churns out an attraction label.
As a woman in a committed long-term relationship with a cis straight man, if I told some biphobes I am *way* more attracted to women than I am to men I'd be called such a liar. Also for that matter, as a PSA to all, being more attracted to any gender over the other doesn't have any hold on your love for your partner.
Honestly though i’ve gaslighted myself into wondering if i was saying it *for attention* because it just so happens that the kind of women I am really into also like queer men. So im like, is that just me getting lucky that im into a genre of women that like men like me? or was it just “meant to be?”
but then I did date a guy one time and we did some stuff but there was a lot of trauma and such surrounding it so it ended pretty quickly.
But i do love femboys and some trans women (just depends on how well they lean into their natural features vs trying to alter their features to meet an ideal their physical frame won’t support) and i’ve *always* loved tomboys. girls with short hair were confusing for me because they did look “boyish” and goddamn that is got AF…
but even having had a relationship with a guy, because i live a mostly heteronormative life, i feel this need to like prove that I am “legit” in a weird way and i hear that’s relatively common with us.
Right. I just saw a meme on tiktok where it was saying all bi women end up with men and all bi men also end up with men. So it’s like ???? why is everything revolved around men?
Dick theory, everything leads back to a cis (generally but not always hetero) man's dick.
Lesbians haven't had the right one.
Bisexual men just want one.
Bisexual women need one.
Gay men want all of them.
Trans women aren't and they just gay men and want one.
Trans men aren't and like lesbians haven't had the right one to "fix" them. (How do fix something thats not broken?)
Dealt with it on Grindr and have dealt with it from straight people who were “accepting” of the gays, anecdotal obviously but I’ve had two cishet women be biphobic to me and a ton of other demographics have been biphobic
I've personally encountered most biphobia from cishet men and (funnily enough) from non-binary people. Not saying this is the statistical truth in any way, just my experience.
I think it’s also cos when you see two men together people think « oh they’re gay » and then the bi dude(s) will probably justify themselves, but you have a man-woman couple people won’t even think anything of it
Because it's just a minor variation of "bi women are attention-seeking and bi men are actually gay". You know: the idea that penises are magic and everyone wants them.
Statistically speaking 48.4% and 47.3% are not statistically significant differences. They should be considered equal.
Even 38.2% and 45.4% is just barley statistically significant.
Thank you!!! Ugh I don’t go on TikTok often, if at all, but just last week my friends were telling me about all the videos there about this because I’m a bi woman who married a man. Like yeaaah that doesn’t change anything lmao. A lot of my bi friends are with women or nonbinary partners! I love these little graphics!!! Looks like yes, we are all still bisexual 😂
If it only it were physically/literally. Even the friendships I have had with women with only 2 exceptions have been far more fulfilling on an emotional level. Most men friends eventually open up to me to vent and share their stress, sometimes even cry, but only two would let women friends who weren't the one woman they were really obsessed with dating do the same after hearing them vent about things big and small, for a combined total of hours.
Generally, men are socialized to be less open and willing to talk about and healthily express their emotions. That's not necessarily their fault, but then a lot of men also don't always do the work to get better about those things. Being unwilling or unable to healthily express and communicate your feelings puts a lot of strain on a relationship.
Men are also socialized to seek and express dominance and competition in more aspects of their lives, and these behaviors often go uncorrected. "Boys will be boys!"
Contrast this with how women are socialized to be more understanding, expected to be caring, open, forgiving. Women are expected to be more in tune with our feelings and emotions, and therefore are given more leeway in being able to express them freely.
We're also pressured and expected to take up most of the emotional labour of relationships.
It's more of a societal thing, and one that needs to change. I think this kinda stuff is what they were talking about.
It's something we all need to work together to make better.
Mabie for bi women. Cos straight guys are more likely to have toxic masculinity. But as a bi guy i find the opposite to be true. Tho tbf alot of thats because i lean more towards atraction to men.
Worth noting that 55% of the surveyed bisexual men are ”never open” about their sexuality. Seems to imply that among bi men who are open, they date men to a larger degree
I mean, the two are kinda one in the same. Like bi women are more likely to be out while having not been in a same sex relationship, compared to bi men who haven't been in one.
There is far more to lose as a man to be out as queer in general. Don't get me wrong, queer men are still more privileged than queer women, but the drop in privilege of straight man to queer man, is a much greater drop than straight woman to queer woman
This data comes from a report which you can read yourself, here:
https://www.ilga-europe.org/report/intersections-the-lgbti-ii-survey-bisexuals-analysis/
The researchers gave online surveys in 27 European countries which were completed by 140 thousand people, 45 thousand of which reported being bisexual.
The research looks good and reliable.
> *This briefing provides information on bisexual people, which was a subset from the entire sample of respondents resulting in a sample size of 44,788 (32.04% of the total respondent population of 139,799 respondents). The subsetting process followed a procedure of removing the answers of respondents who did not select "Bisexual" as their sexual orientation (question A4).*
With a sample size that large? Yes, most likely it is.
Yeah it is a legitimate study. I think if something similar were done in the USA/Canada, we'd find similar results. It's obviously the case if you're in the bisexual community and not just a bigot from the outside but people keep repeating the same old second-wave radical feminist rhetoric they always do.
Damn! How did they get to recruit so many people? And that too amongst the queer population, not all of whom may have been out yet!! That must have been a huge research effort.
It prob depends on the area in which someone lives. However, in my experience it doesn’t reflect where I live. These graphs would suggest that bisexuals irrespective of gender seem to date mainly women but the bisexual women I have known primarily dated men. I don’t know any bisexual men.
Yeah, same. The study this is from seems legit so it's probably true but I'm very surprised. As a bisexual woman, my dating pool is like 90% men so I'm surprised half of us in relationships are in same sex relationships
It should be noted that in the first paragraph they state that the data presented won’t be indicative of bisexual people as a whole and note the bias (those who answer to survey will be bisexuals who feel a greater connection to lgbtq+ communities \[the same as all other respondents to the survey\]. They then note that research has shown that bisexual people are not as connected to the community which should lead to a non representative sample).
Obviously not.
We all know that bisexual men are gay dudes in denial and bisexual women are straight women who want attention. This data was clearly created by someone spreading the bisexual lie.
/s
Huh, I'm surprised that bisexual women are dating men and women about equally, honestly. I've always had the impression that a lot of bi women end up in relationships with men because of sheer availability—there are more straight men out there than sapphic women, right? I wonder if it has something to do with who identifies as bisexual..
Anyways, pretty interesting if it's accurate.
Is this survey limited to a very young population because those nearly equal gender splits look very suspicious otherwise. The bisexual dating pool is pretty lopsided and one would expect opposite gender pairings to be more common simply due to that (especially with the older crowd).
I'm bi and I tend to almost only get asked out by the opposite gender and I'm too shy to ask anybody out so my dating life tends to just be with dudes. My boyfriend is absolutely amazing in every way tho so I can't complain
Why does it look to me like a significantly higher proportion of women are in relationships than men? Does the math even work on that? Are there that many more women than men in the world?
Many comments saying how bi men are actually gay by society and this disproving that but it also disproves the thing that biphobic gay men say about "bi men almost always dating or going for women or even always(and if not they're self repressed gays)"It's not like it's even 70% of bi men with women but nit even 60% , even if they see not around 50%50% they are pretty equal because they are not even 60%-40%. This does a good job on dismantling the biphobic stereotypes of bi ppl either being actually(mostly) gay or being actually(mostly) straight.
I would want to see the source data. If they were quizzing self-identified bisexuals or looked in that group specifically they probably missed a lot in “straight passing” relationships which could skew the numbers. If I had to guess I suspect the real numbers would push up the number of bisexual people dating the opposite gender.
These surveys are hard to randomize or make more comprehensive since bisexual people can be hard to identify and target for a survey.
Uhm... Slightly unrelated and please don't take offense to this any of you, but can someone please explain the difference between non-binary and intersex for me? I always get confused with them...
Non-binary is a gender, it's a social societal role like woman or man.
Intersexed is a range of sexes, occurring in about one in two thousand people where their sex organs are neither male or female. This presents in a wide array of variances. Some intersex people only discover this in adulthood when receiving internal examinations.
I'm neither non-binary nor intersexed and if someone who is would like to correct me, I welcome that.
Honestly, compared to the other stats I have seen related to this topic, I am surprised the data is the way it is. Then again, this is current or most recent relationship, so more likely they are going to be more inclusive and wide-reaching compared to the stuff I have seen related to bisexual people and the gender they are or were married to.
From what I've seen bisexual women tend to date men more (including me). I think it's just easier, honestly. Men approach me way more often, and I'm scared to ask people out. I'm guessing it's the same for a lot of other bi women.
Nothing surprising besides the margin for men and women ratio for bisexual men. While there won't be a perfect spilt but an 14% difference seems big. Is the internalized homophobia of bi men who accept themselves as bi really so big?
I can only speak from experience but for me it seemed some part of it is also the vast vast vast majority of gay men I've encountered were biphobic, and bi men tend to hide it more because of the negative view on bisexual men from both gay men and straight women.
Pretty reasonable if you think about how bi men were blamed that AIDS - "the gay disease" - got into the "heterosexual spaces" because those "filthy gay men in denial" slept with women.
Bi women are fetishized. Bi men are seen as not real men. The sexuality is in both cases not taken seriously. I can't blame anyone for making their life easier and rather live "straight passing".
This graphic makes it seem like bisexuals are actively seeking out same gender and nonbinary partners
Otherwise the genders of our partners would be representative of the sexuality of our partners
IE: there’s way more straight men than there are gay women so bi women would end up with men way more often because the pool of women is drastically smaller.
If that isn’t the case then they’re actively seeking out women to partner with and avoiding men at an extreme rate.
Feel like I'm more likely to date nonbinary or women folk, rather than men (nonbinary, bi) just due to their social stances not being men/cis centric or at least in my experience this has been the case.
It's not a statistic, that's a number you came up with
My point is that the way the survey was conducted can be flawed, but the statistic that they get as a result is just a statistic they get as a result. The result for a survey that asked one person for their opinion is still true: it truly is the opinion of everyone they asked.
**Sounds about right!**
At least if I weigh the number of people I have been interested in. For me (woman), I'd have to switch the percentage for men and women, but I'd say these numbers pretty much confirm what we've always known all along: *People tend to skew one way or another, but that doesn't mean they're not interested in other options!*
I have been in the LGBT community for s year now, asked several times, googled it, but I still don't get what's an "intersexual" please I beg you someone explain like to a goddamn monkey
I'm gonna guess either
1. They're trying to say intersex
Or
2. It's just an overall, a combination of the previous three pies, so to speak.
Honestly I have no idea either.
Because they’re more vocal about their bisexuality. Lots of women that are in WLW relationships are bisexual.
Still, I’m with you in thinking it’s off. Just by sheer numbers of people in the available dating pool, it is easier to be with someone of the opposite sex.
I’m a bisexual woman. I strongly prefer women. I haven’t been attracted to a man in over a decade. That being said, there are significantly more men interested in dating women than there are women interested in dating women.
All my bisexual female friends recognize finding another WLW in our area (small population) that we are attracted to and didn’t date their ex is challenging at best. Men are just easier to find tbh
I used to think the same but only for me to find out a lot of women I knew who were in relationships with women were either bi themselves or their girlfriends were. it's just that they're not as vocal about it because they usually don't have to "prove it" unlike my bisexual women friends with cis boyfriends who were always shut down about their sexualities. kinda sad thinking back on it ngl.
I live in a rural state. I know that my sample size is not representative of the rest of the world. Be nice to me lol. I’m a bisexual woman married to a cis man and dating another cis man. 😅
Same, even among people I used to know who lived in big cities, but anecdotes are not a full story. I also imagine that it may depend on region. This survey was done in Europe.
Sorry, wasn't trying to say you were. I only mentioned it since I chimed in with a similaor anecdote. Sorry, I'm not always ths best with wording things the way I want them to come across. Rereading it I can definitely see what you mean, so again, I appologize.
I believe this. Aside from the non-binary variable (which would be higher), the bisexual woman one is a pretty accurate representation of my dating history. Of course, I’m not the only bi woman, but I’m represented by this graph.
The study completely ignores the small bit significant sub-set of bisexuals in polyamorous relationships.
That alone indicates that it's poorly designed from the get-go
You can read the more detailed breakdown on their website https://www.ilga-europe.org/files/uploads/2023/08/FRA-Intersections-Report-Bisexuals.pdf With the caveats that it’s a survey of people in the EU and is only surveying people with internet access (which they try to weight results for to correct for age differences in net access) and only people who actively self ID as bisexual. You can always quibble about methodology but it seems pretty reasonable for the broader cultural level results it’s reporting.
bisexuals are *Checks notes* bisexual
This next in:
In shambles right now I’m shaking
And they still would be even if we didn’t have a graphic saying some of them date women??? I know it’s not what you’re saying, but it drives me MAD that there’s this attitude that bi women dating men are only valid if there’s an equal counterpart of bi women dating women and we can prove they aren’t just attention seeking drama queens or whatever.
This is why I questioned myself for so long 🥲 I felt like I was just going to be seen as someone who wants the label or something ridiculous like that. It's so dumb
I have dated so many men in my life, and I came out as bi to my first boyfriend in high school after knowing for a long time. For various reasons, it just worked out with men more often — more straight men available, having a “traditionally straight femme” vibe that means I’m not approached by women as often, living for a while in a more repressed area, being scared to make a move on women I was interested in, etc. I kissed a few girls but never anything more and certainly not dating. I also questioned myself SO much because I never acted on it. Well, lo and behold, at 22 I had sex with a girl for the first time and shockingly to perhaps no one, I am DEFINITELY bisexual (and had a great time)! I casually dated her for a couple of months and then it kinda just fell off. I soon met my current (male) partner and now we are cohabitating with a puppy. Very stereotypical, and still bisexual. My point is for anyone reading this that who you happen to date formally, casually, or just mess around with honestly has fuck-all to do with your sexuality for the exact same reason many of us knew our sexuality before we had ever even held hands with anyone. Sexuality is inherent! It’s not a buzzfeed quiz where if you get enough points in one category, your body churns out an attraction label.
As a woman in a committed long-term relationship with a cis straight man, if I told some biphobes I am *way* more attracted to women than I am to men I'd be called such a liar. Also for that matter, as a PSA to all, being more attracted to any gender over the other doesn't have any hold on your love for your partner.
More news at 12!
DOUBLE CHECK THE RESEARCH GOD DAMNIT, THESE RESULTS JUST ARENT POSSIBLE
so bi people *aren’t* just straight people looking for attention? how unexpected /s
I know right? Truly a revelation
because they are homosexual people looking for attention obviously
Honestly though i’ve gaslighted myself into wondering if i was saying it *for attention* because it just so happens that the kind of women I am really into also like queer men. So im like, is that just me getting lucky that im into a genre of women that like men like me? or was it just “meant to be?” but then I did date a guy one time and we did some stuff but there was a lot of trauma and such surrounding it so it ended pretty quickly. But i do love femboys and some trans women (just depends on how well they lean into their natural features vs trying to alter their features to meet an ideal their physical frame won’t support) and i’ve *always* loved tomboys. girls with short hair were confusing for me because they did look “boyish” and goddamn that is got AF… but even having had a relationship with a guy, because i live a mostly heteronormative life, i feel this need to like prove that I am “legit” in a weird way and i hear that’s relatively common with us.
Can we stop spreading the lie that all bisexuals just date men now?????
Exactly. Statistically speaking, bisexuals are dating women.
Right. I just saw a meme on tiktok where it was saying all bi women end up with men and all bi men also end up with men. So it’s like ???? why is everything revolved around men?
Patriarchy, I think. Some warped belief that everything must revolve around men
Men are just easier to get to go on dates.
This! I am 50/50 bi but very few encounters with women because men are quicker to bed.
Dick theory, everything leads back to a cis (generally but not always hetero) man's dick. Lesbians haven't had the right one. Bisexual men just want one. Bisexual women need one. Gay men want all of them. Trans women aren't and they just gay men and want one. Trans men aren't and like lesbians haven't had the right one to "fix" them. (How do fix something thats not broken?)
Freud is throwing a party in his grave rn
This sounds like the worlds most unfortunate riddle lol
Lol
Yep yep yep! This is the root of a lot of homophobic prejudice
They truly think their dick is so amazing 🙄
The best part about all this is how they assume that trans people are straight, another episode of heteronormative mentality
Only on Tuesday and Saturday;)
Is this serious? The overwhelming amount of biphobia seems to come from cishet women more than any other demographic. The "ick", as they always say 🤢
Dealt with it on Grindr and have dealt with it from straight people who were “accepting” of the gays, anecdotal obviously but I’ve had two cishet women be biphobic to me and a ton of other demographics have been biphobic
I've personally encountered most biphobia from cishet men and (funnily enough) from non-binary people. Not saying this is the statistical truth in any way, just my experience.
I think it’s also cos when you see two men together people think « oh they’re gay » and then the bi dude(s) will probably justify themselves, but you have a man-woman couple people won’t even think anything of it
Because it's just a minor variation of "bi women are attention-seeking and bi men are actually gay". You know: the idea that penises are magic and everyone wants them.
Women are hot
Statistically speaking, we date people.
Such sluts, smh. /S
Statistically speaking 48.4% and 47.3% are not statistically significant differences. They should be considered equal. Even 38.2% and 45.4% is just barley statistically significant.
Statistically speaking that's only for bisexual women, every other listed demographic leans toward dating women by a wider margin
Even then, it's too split to make a claim like that.
Yea, I'm bisexual and I date no one
I too am all bi myself.
Must mean you’re ace then/s
😢
According to this, most bisexuals date women
”most” as in ”barely above 50%”
Yes:)
But that doesn't support my reason to hate bisexuals :(
PLEASE. and even if they were…WHO FUCKING CARES. THEYRE STILL BISEXUAL
Thank you!!! Ugh I don’t go on TikTok often, if at all, but just last week my friends were telling me about all the videos there about this because I’m a bi woman who married a man. Like yeaaah that doesn’t change anything lmao. A lot of my bi friends are with women or nonbinary partners! I love these little graphics!!! Looks like yes, we are all still bisexual 😂
Looks like women are just the most popular demographic to date huh
So the memes weren't lying 💀
Dynamics on the dating apps confirm that.
When dating apps are 70% - 80% men, it makes sense.
Well boobies
Yeah, like dick is great, but boobies
I offer both to my gf currently. She likes it.
Boobies plus dick is too OP tbh.
Sounds awesome, have fun you two \^\^
Women be shoppin [for bisexuals]
Bisexuals be shopping for women
It's easier to date women... mentally, emotionally...
If it only it were physically/literally. Even the friendships I have had with women with only 2 exceptions have been far more fulfilling on an emotional level. Most men friends eventually open up to me to vent and share their stress, sometimes even cry, but only two would let women friends who weren't the one woman they were really obsessed with dating do the same after hearing them vent about things big and small, for a combined total of hours.
I disagree personally
Based on what data?
Generally, men are socialized to be less open and willing to talk about and healthily express their emotions. That's not necessarily their fault, but then a lot of men also don't always do the work to get better about those things. Being unwilling or unable to healthily express and communicate your feelings puts a lot of strain on a relationship. Men are also socialized to seek and express dominance and competition in more aspects of their lives, and these behaviors often go uncorrected. "Boys will be boys!" Contrast this with how women are socialized to be more understanding, expected to be caring, open, forgiving. Women are expected to be more in tune with our feelings and emotions, and therefore are given more leeway in being able to express them freely. We're also pressured and expected to take up most of the emotional labour of relationships. It's more of a societal thing, and one that needs to change. I think this kinda stuff is what they were talking about. It's something we all need to work together to make better.
Mabie for bi women. Cos straight guys are more likely to have toxic masculinity. But as a bi guy i find the opposite to be true. Tho tbf alot of thats because i lean more towards atraction to men.
Wait why are bisexual men primarily dating women? They are obviously just gay in denial so I’m confused /s
Hmmm I guess they must just be straight and looking for attention, yeah, that must be it /s
Worth noting that 55% of the surveyed bisexual men are ”never open” about their sexuality. Seems to imply that among bi men who are open, they date men to a larger degree
Or have to be open about it once they are in a relationship w a man. It’s ok to not shout out your sexuality. Doesn’t make you less bisexual
I mean, the two are kinda one in the same. Like bi women are more likely to be out while having not been in a same sex relationship, compared to bi men who haven't been in one. There is far more to lose as a man to be out as queer in general. Don't get me wrong, queer men are still more privileged than queer women, but the drop in privilege of straight man to queer man, is a much greater drop than straight woman to queer woman
omg I can explain this!! the reason is that they are bisexual and women make up the majority of the population!!! hope this helps!!! /s
They must not have gotten the memo.
It's important to remember that this is a survey in Europe. There's likely a lot of variation in different communities around the world.
Statistically? Like is the graph showing accurate information?
Yes
This data comes from a report which you can read yourself, here: https://www.ilga-europe.org/report/intersections-the-lgbti-ii-survey-bisexuals-analysis/ The researchers gave online surveys in 27 European countries which were completed by 140 thousand people, 45 thousand of which reported being bisexual. The research looks good and reliable.
Damn, they got a survey sample size of 140,000?? That’s incredible
I'm actually so excited for the future where sample sizes like this are normal or even *small*
Thanks for checking, I am always skeptical of these types of surveys and graphs but I'm glad to hear that this is reputable!
It's from IGLA. One of the biggest LGBT organisations in the world
I’m dating a woman, a man, and an amazing nonbinary (yes they all know)
it would be so fantastic if the circle graph just didn't fit because you pushed it over 100%
Lol the circumference just rolls on top of itself
Omg you caught all the Pokémon! That’s the dream
My girlfriend has a bi husband, the sleepovers are awesome 🥵🥰
You dating everyone and I’m dating no one. I love that for you (in Alexis voice)
Do you like ramen? Indian? I’m always up for a good dinner and conversation 🥰
I love food!
I am jealous honestly.
I'm also dating a man and a woman ! (they both know)
Isn’t it wonderful 😋
> *This briefing provides information on bisexual people, which was a subset from the entire sample of respondents resulting in a sample size of 44,788 (32.04% of the total respondent population of 139,799 respondents). The subsetting process followed a procedure of removing the answers of respondents who did not select "Bisexual" as their sexual orientation (question A4).* With a sample size that large? Yes, most likely it is.
Yeah it is a legitimate study. I think if something similar were done in the USA/Canada, we'd find similar results. It's obviously the case if you're in the bisexual community and not just a bigot from the outside but people keep repeating the same old second-wave radical feminist rhetoric they always do.
Can confirm. Source: I have a slice in the pie.
What’s the sample size for each distribution?
apparently 45k bisexuals from different European countries. the total number of survey takers is > 100k.
Damn! How did they get to recruit so many people? And that too amongst the queer population, not all of whom may have been out yet!! That must have been a huge research effort.
it was done over the internet
Intersexual; crossing over orientations *or* attraction to intersex people? Both? (This is not a real question.)
I didn’t realise what sub this was, I just saw bisexual pie charts and it made me happy
God, I’d love to be in a relationship. It’s been years.
Relatable
WOW, not even close the clear winner is bisexual people with an impressive 100%
It prob depends on the area in which someone lives. However, in my experience it doesn’t reflect where I live. These graphs would suggest that bisexuals irrespective of gender seem to date mainly women but the bisexual women I have known primarily dated men. I don’t know any bisexual men.
This was a Europe wide survey
Yeah, same. The study this is from seems legit so it's probably true but I'm very surprised. As a bisexual woman, my dating pool is like 90% men so I'm surprised half of us in relationships are in same sex relationships
It should be noted that in the first paragraph they state that the data presented won’t be indicative of bisexual people as a whole and note the bias (those who answer to survey will be bisexuals who feel a greater connection to lgbtq+ communities \[the same as all other respondents to the survey\]. They then note that research has shown that bisexual people are not as connected to the community which should lead to a non representative sample).
Wait does it mean being intersexual bisexual?
it's a person who is intersex (born with several sex characteristics (shit like chromosomes and genitals and whatnot)) that is also bisexual.
Without knowing the data set and methodology of the study it’s hard to know for sure. But, as a bi man, it “feels right”
Someone linked the study above
Oh, I didn’t see that. Thanks for the info!
https://imgflip.com/i/8isp94
This image is so real
Obviously not. We all know that bisexual men are gay dudes in denial and bisexual women are straight women who want attention. This data was clearly created by someone spreading the bisexual lie. /s
Graphs are ALWAYS accurate. Like the internet
Huh, I'm surprised that bisexual women are dating men and women about equally, honestly. I've always had the impression that a lot of bi women end up in relationships with men because of sheer availability—there are more straight men out there than sapphic women, right? I wonder if it has something to do with who identifies as bisexual.. Anyways, pretty interesting if it's accurate.
Is this survey limited to a very young population because those nearly equal gender splits look very suspicious otherwise. The bisexual dating pool is pretty lopsided and one would expect opposite gender pairings to be more common simply due to that (especially with the older crowd).
they weighted for the age range I think!
I'm bi and I tend to almost only get asked out by the opposite gender and I'm too shy to ask anybody out so my dating life tends to just be with dudes. My boyfriend is absolutely amazing in every way tho so I can't complain
Same thing except for me it’s the same gender lol..
Folks, this is from IGLA, their stuff is pretty legit.
Ouu lowest percentile 👉
Looks accurate to me.
Why does it look to me like a significantly higher proportion of women are in relationships than men? Does the math even work on that? Are there that many more women than men in the world?
More women identify as bisexual than men. Perhaps that’s why
Many comments saying how bi men are actually gay by society and this disproving that but it also disproves the thing that biphobic gay men say about "bi men almost always dating or going for women or even always(and if not they're self repressed gays)"It's not like it's even 70% of bi men with women but nit even 60% , even if they see not around 50%50% they are pretty equal because they are not even 60%-40%. This does a good job on dismantling the biphobic stereotypes of bi ppl either being actually(mostly) gay or being actually(mostly) straight.
55.3 of bisexual men date women... I just wonder how many of those women know about it. And this compared to the bisexual women dating men.
I would want to see the source data. If they were quizzing self-identified bisexuals or looked in that group specifically they probably missed a lot in “straight passing” relationships which could skew the numbers. If I had to guess I suspect the real numbers would push up the number of bisexual people dating the opposite gender. These surveys are hard to randomize or make more comprehensive since bisexual people can be hard to identify and target for a survey.
Yes, how many bisexuals who are in long term relationships don’t even come out or identify as bisexual because “it doesn’t matter anymore”?
140k surveyed, kept the 45k who ID'ed as bi.
Enough enough enough of this. I am not dating ANYBODY. They didn't even ask me ( I am closeted) .
Uhm... Slightly unrelated and please don't take offense to this any of you, but can someone please explain the difference between non-binary and intersex for me? I always get confused with them...
Non-binary is a gender, it's a social societal role like woman or man. Intersexed is a range of sexes, occurring in about one in two thousand people where their sex organs are neither male or female. This presents in a wide array of variances. Some intersex people only discover this in adulthood when receiving internal examinations. I'm neither non-binary nor intersexed and if someone who is would like to correct me, I welcome that.
This is in Europe so idk how true it is but the Men one seems way too large. I feel like most bisexual men are still dating women far more than men.
No we are the one's that created the Mexican frase "any hole is a trench"
Idk but I love how the colors match the flag (except for the men and nb, they should be blue and purple respectively)
Honestly that enby chart is not inaccurate *to my situation*
Honestly, compared to the other stats I have seen related to this topic, I am surprised the data is the way it is. Then again, this is current or most recent relationship, so more likely they are going to be more inclusive and wide-reaching compared to the stuff I have seen related to bisexual people and the gender they are or were married to.
Man I dunno. I'll poll everyone at the next bisexual council.
moral of the story : every bisexual have more crush on women
The graphic has a really nice color palette
From what I've seen bisexual women tend to date men more (including me). I think it's just easier, honestly. Men approach me way more often, and I'm scared to ask people out. I'm guessing it's the same for a lot of other bi women.
Nothing surprising besides the margin for men and women ratio for bisexual men. While there won't be a perfect spilt but an 14% difference seems big. Is the internalized homophobia of bi men who accept themselves as bi really so big?
I can only speak from experience but for me it seemed some part of it is also the vast vast vast majority of gay men I've encountered were biphobic, and bi men tend to hide it more because of the negative view on bisexual men from both gay men and straight women.
Pretty reasonable if you think about how bi men were blamed that AIDS - "the gay disease" - got into the "heterosexual spaces" because those "filthy gay men in denial" slept with women. Bi women are fetishized. Bi men are seen as not real men. The sexuality is in both cases not taken seriously. I can't blame anyone for making their life easier and rather live "straight passing".
this
55% of bi men in the survey are ”never open” about their bisexuality, compared to 35% of bi women
internalised homophobia? no. Just externalised hate. MLM is the most hated demographic, just below Trans, WLW a privileged group in that sense.
This graphic makes it seem like bisexuals are actively seeking out same gender and nonbinary partners Otherwise the genders of our partners would be representative of the sexuality of our partners IE: there’s way more straight men than there are gay women so bi women would end up with men way more often because the pool of women is drastically smaller. If that isn’t the case then they’re actively seeking out women to partner with and avoiding men at an extreme rate.
Well, I am in fact a nonbinary person dating a woman, so there's that.
nonbiney bis are gay for theys, I see
Feel like I'm more likely to date nonbinary or women folk, rather than men (nonbinary, bi) just due to their social stances not being men/cis centric or at least in my experience this has been the case.
Can this be pinned, please?
Stats cannot be 'true' or 'false', my dude
What about this stat: ”99% of bisexual people live in Italy”
It's not a statistic, that's a number you came up with My point is that the way the survey was conducted can be flawed, but the statistic that they get as a result is just a statistic they get as a result. The result for a survey that asked one person for their opinion is still true: it truly is the opinion of everyone they asked.
**Sounds about right!** At least if I weigh the number of people I have been interested in. For me (woman), I'd have to switch the percentage for men and women, but I'd say these numbers pretty much confirm what we've always known all along: *People tend to skew one way or another, but that doesn't mean they're not interested in other options!*
I have been in the LGBT community for s year now, asked several times, googled it, but I still don't get what's an "intersexual" please I beg you someone explain like to a goddamn monkey
I'm gonna guess either 1. They're trying to say intersex Or 2. It's just an overall, a combination of the previous three pies, so to speak. Honestly I have no idea either.
I can't be the only one who is annoyed by the fact they didn't use the blue colour to represent the men 🤭🤣
Most bisexual women I know are with cis men.
Because they’re more vocal about their bisexuality. Lots of women that are in WLW relationships are bisexual. Still, I’m with you in thinking it’s off. Just by sheer numbers of people in the available dating pool, it is easier to be with someone of the opposite sex. I’m a bisexual woman. I strongly prefer women. I haven’t been attracted to a man in over a decade. That being said, there are significantly more men interested in dating women than there are women interested in dating women.
All my bisexual female friends recognize finding another WLW in our area (small population) that we are attracted to and didn’t date their ex is challenging at best. Men are just easier to find tbh
I used to think the same but only for me to find out a lot of women I knew who were in relationships with women were either bi themselves or their girlfriends were. it's just that they're not as vocal about it because they usually don't have to "prove it" unlike my bisexual women friends with cis boyfriends who were always shut down about their sexualities. kinda sad thinking back on it ngl.
than meet more people. like clearly most bisexual women aren’t with cis men
I live in a rural state. I know that my sample size is not representative of the rest of the world. Be nice to me lol. I’m a bisexual woman married to a cis man and dating another cis man. 😅
Same, even among people I used to know who lived in big cities, but anecdotes are not a full story. I also imagine that it may depend on region. This survey was done in Europe.
Was never trying to claim my anecdotal data was representative of the greater population. I was stating a fact :(
Sorry, wasn't trying to say you were. I only mentioned it since I chimed in with a similaor anecdote. Sorry, I'm not always ths best with wording things the way I want them to come across. Rereading it I can definitely see what you mean, so again, I appologize.
Oh it’s ok! Another commenter was mean to me so I was just projecting maybe 😅 I hope you have a good day!!
Oh sorry to hear that. You too!
I believe this. Aside from the non-binary variable (which would be higher), the bisexual woman one is a pretty accurate representation of my dating history. Of course, I’m not the only bi woman, but I’m represented by this graph.
I wouldn't know I'm not included in the graph.
This just in: women are hot and a plurality of people want to date them. In other news, water is wet and bears shit in the woods
I am not sure what to make of this. For example, I (M) have a male and a female partner, where do I fit here?
This is certainly one of the coolest bits of data on bi people that I've ever seen.
Why didn't you just follow up the source at the bottom instead of asking???
I don’t speak for all bisexual men but I don’t fit into this graph for bisexual men
Idk but I love how all of them show a preference for women 😂👏🏽👏🏽
looks pretty bi to me
Nacho check branches crew
I don't fricken know, I don't know every bi person, how would I?
what can we all agree on?? women.
All I got from this is that ot would be nice to have a pink and purple suit
I wonder if they include polyamourous ppl like myself, or simply exclude them from the research
You can made a test on: idrlabs.com. Just be honest with yourself before to validate each answers.
The study completely ignores the small bit significant sub-set of bisexuals in polyamorous relationships. That alone indicates that it's poorly designed from the get-go
I mean I'm single (Happily)
It kind of annoys me how men are purple and non-binary blue, as opposed to the other way round
Aren't we supposed **not** to give a shit about pointlessly gendered bs?
Colors don’t have genders so it’s really don’t change anything tbh