ABSTRACT
Bisexual women tend to be represented in mainstream media as hypersexual and their sexuality and relationships are frequently fetishized in near-pornographic ways, thereby making them as sexual objects to be toyed with rather than subjects living out their sexualities or making choices about their lifestyles. In contemporary Western cultures, it is generally considered to be more socially acceptable for women to engage in bisexual practices and adopt bisexual identities than it is for men. A character named Lionel, who is a male undergraduate student, confesses in the first episode that he is interested in both men and women. Bisexual women were judged to be more confused, promiscuous and neurotic, and less agreeable and conscientious, than either heterosexual or lesbian women. Heterosexual men’s evaluations of bisexual women were more negative than heterosexual women’s. Bisexual men may have it even harder in some respects does not mean that bisexual women have it easy.
