Bi-curious

Bi-curious is a term used to refer to someone who does not identify as bisexual or homosexual but feels or shows some curiosity in a relationship or sexual activity with someone of the same sex. The term can also apply to a person who generally identifies as homosexual but feels or shows some interest in having a relationship with someone of the opposite sex. The terms homoflexible and heteroflexible are also applied to bicuriosity.

The term bi-curious implies that the individual has had no sexual experience—or very little—of that sort, but may continue to self-identify as bi-curious if they do not feel they have adequately explored these feelings, or if they do not wish to identify as bisexual.

A practising heterosexual or homosexual who engages in bisexual activity during a three-way/threesome/ménage-à-trois, 3-on-2, or other group sex, and only then, is a different matter. One term for a person with this preference is vortex bisexual, and according to some linguistic experts and other commentators on the topic of slang, this is the only group to whom the term "switch hitter" is accurately applied, with other tems like "AC/DC", "ambisexterous" "versatile", and the like applied to those who are bisexual clearly and all the time. (CoB, 1992)

Someone with sexual experience who is experimenting with activities with the other gender with whom they generally have not had relations is a case referred to by yet another set of terminology.

See also

• Bisexual chic
• Closeted
• Kinsey scale

• Lesbian until graduation
• Questioning (sexuality and gender)

External links

• The N Society: “Bi-Sexuality: The Myth and the Mayhem”
• Metroactive Features | Bisexual Community: Bi & Bi - Bisexuals have found a new dating scene online. But will this newfound [sic] community lead to a political identity?
• happen, match.com's advice center: Are all straight women bi-curious?
• Laurie Essig, Salon Magazine: “Heteroflexibility”