Most straight women don't want to date bi guys, but most straight men are open to bi women - LGBTQ Nation
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The reasons people gave for not wanting to date bi partners show the lingering stigma of bi stereotypes.

Two-thirds of straight women and one-third of straight men are unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, according to a YouGov poll published today, during Bisexuality Visibility Week. The poll illustrates how lingering stereotypes negatively affect people’s impressions of bisexual individuals.

The poll — which surveyed 5,983 Britons during late March, including 2,031 straight women and 1,517 straight men — found that 48% of all respondents had positive views of bisexual people and only 8% had negative views. The remaining percentage had neither a positive nor a negative view of bisexuals.

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When the survey asked straight women and men why they were unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, most (16% and 19%, respectively) said they “just don’t” or claimed, “It’s just a preference.”

A nearly similar portion, 17% of straight women and 16% of straight men, said they felt like bi people are more inclined to cheat, or that they themselves would feel insecure that they’d be unable to provide a bi partner whatever they get from a same-sex partner.

Interestingly, 9% of straight women said they feel disgust or discomfort towards men with same-sex experiences, 8% worried about possible sexual health risks, and 10% of straight men said they considered bisexuality to be either religiously or morally “wrong.” Approximately 12-13% of all straight respondents said they just wanted their dating partner to be heterosexual.

  • potustheplant@feddit.nlBanned from community
    35·
    8 days ago

    Exactly, negative attitudes. Being polyamorous, liking threesomes or being promiscuous is not a negative thing, it’s just a preference. Hence why this is just simple prejudice, not “biphobia”.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
      72·
      8 days ago

      Encompasses negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors towards bisexual individuals.

      encompass verb

      1 : to include as a part of a whole or group

          • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
            23·
            8 days ago

            So if I believe bi people are wonderful people, I now have a (non-negative) belief towards them. I am being biphobic?

            • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
              7·
              8 days ago

              Straight guy here from /all. Unfortunately, a big chunk of my cohort will have responded favorably because they are dreaming of a female partner that will gift them a threesome.

              velma OP

              And they, too, are engaging in biphobia with that logic.

              potustheplant@feddit.nl

              Not sure that’s how a “phobia” works.

              Let’s put this conversation into perspective.

              Men that date bisexual women because they think she will gift them a threesome because she is bisexual are leaning into harmful bisexual stereotypes. That is biphobia.