Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, C04 3SQ, UK.
School of Psychology, University of East London, Stratford, UK.
Arch Sex Behav. 2020 Oct;49(7):2481-2495. doi: 10.1007/s10508-020-01766-z. Epub 2020 Jun 30.
The degree to which bisexual-identified individuals are distinct from either heterosexual or homosexual individuals in their sexual orientation is an ongoing debate. We examined potential differences between these groups with respect to a strong correlate of sexual orientation, gender nonconformity (femininity in males, masculinity in females). Across pooled data, we compared self-reports of childhood gender nonconformity (n = 919) and adulthood gender nonconformity (n = 1265) and observer ratings of adulthood gender nonconformity (n = 915) between sexual orientations. Most analyses suggested a steady increase in gender nonconformity from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. However, in some analyses, bisexual men were closer to homosexual men than to heterosexual men in their gender nonconformity. The intermediate status of bisexual people in gender nonconformity was not due to the sample having a mixture of very gender-conforming and very gender-nonconforming individuals. In total, men and women with bisexual orientations appeared neither like heterosexual nor homosexual individuals, at least with respect to their gender-related traits.
双性恋者在性取向上与异性恋者或同性恋者的区别程度是一个持续存在的争议。我们研究了这些群体在性取向的一个强相关因素——性别非规范（男性的女性化，女性的男性化）方面的潜在差异。在汇总数据中，我们比较了性取向之间的自我报告的儿童期性别非规范（n=919）和成年期性别非规范（n=1265）以及成年期性别非规范的观察者评分（n=915）。大多数分析表明，性别非规范从纯粹的异性恋到纯粹的同性恋呈稳步增加。然而，在一些分析中，双性恋男性在性别非规范方面比异性恋男性更接近同性恋男性。双性恋者在性别非规范方面的中间地位并不是因为样本中既有非常符合性别规范的个体，也有非常不符合性别规范的个体。总的来说，具有双性恋倾向的男性和女性既不像异性恋者，也不像同性恋者，至少在与性别相关的特征方面是这样。
