ABSTRACT
Throughout this collection of essays [Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues, edited by DeCecco and Shively (1983/4)] the term fluidity appears as a metaphor for bisexuality. That researchers utilize this word so casually should give us pause. Fluidity implies the rigidity of the old heterosexual-homosexual dichotomy, reviewed in several of the papers but insightfully analyzed in Murphy’s (1983/1984) piece. Here […] I will utilize the Melanesian data to elucidate this provocative but slippery notion.
