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Wakefield, Lily (2021-09-03). "Wikipedia faces huge backlash after saying pansexuality and bisexuality are the same thing". PinkNews.

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Cite: "The Kinsey scale says that having a higher level attraction to one gender results in less attraction to the other, which some studies do not support.[39]" How does the Kinsey scale say that? It doesn't seem to say anything about "how strong" attraction is, it just measures if its more towards female or male. Does it really say that people in the middle of the scale can't be equally uninterested in men and women? Doesn't the message stay the same? "More people than you'd think are capable of feeling attraction towards male and female bodies."

"In feminism" section

Almost exclusively deals with reactionary 2nd-wave feminists who ascribed to the "political lesbianism" mantra. It would be useful to get some 3rd/4th wave feminist views on bisexuality, especailly seeing as how 2nd-wave feminism was often notable for its loud and powerful contingent of women who held views that were sex-negative and transphobic, to name abut a few. Said views have fallen well out of favour with modern feminism, and only a minority of women adhere to them today (and the majority of those women are imho younger 2nd wavers) 2A00:23C4:3E44:2C01:911C:1E67:8FA3:CA5 (talk) 23:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bisexual=Homosexual and heterosexual attraction

After the beginning intro part, bisexuality is described as people who have both homosexual and heterosexual attraction.

“ The term bisexuality is mainly used for people that have both heterosexual and homosexual attraction.[1][2][9]”

I checked the sources and at least the first two (because I did not look at the entire third book) do not have this configuration of the definition of bisexuality. I personally am not a fan of describing bisexuality thusly (making it sound like you are half gay and half straight). PitterPatter533 (talk) 19:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misinformation in Definition/Meaning of Bisexuality

In the definition, it says “bisexuality, also known as pansexuality”, which gives the misconception that the two are the same, which is simply not the case. I am not able to edit it due to the fact that I don’t want to sign up and the page is protected. Someone please change this. I understand that some people use the terms interchangeably, but that does not change the fact that they are different, and not the same sexuality with two different terms. Thank you so much! 2601:645:8900:3460:F56E:154D:A71C:2B0A (talk) 04:30, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]