Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.1.91
Kiera Frost, D. Heaslewood, Samantha Holley, Rebecca Wynn
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.25
Renate Baumgartner
This article explores how women (who either had relationships experiences with more than one gender or broadly defined themselves as bisexual) link their non-monogamous relationships with their bisexuality and analyses how these accounts could be argued to reflect these women’s (internalised) binegativity. While binegativity is widely researched, there is a lack of qualitative empirical work on the complexity of bisexual lives in general and of internalised binegativity in particular. This article contributes to these areas of research by drawing on interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to analyse nine qualitative interviews from an ongoing study of bisexual women in Austria. For some of these women, their experiences of non-monogamous relationship forms were linked to (internalised) binegativity, expectations of rejection and concealment of one’s identity; for others, they presented a form of agency. The women showed a range of reactions and strategies related to the positioning of bisexuality and (internalised) binegativity, particularly regarding unfaithfulness: Adoption of binegative self-attributions, excusing the antibisexual notions of others, and engaging in additional emotion work to ensure faithfulness to their partners.
{"title":"‘I think I’m not a relationship person’: Bisexual women’s accounts of (internalised) binegativity in nonmonogamous relationship narratives","authors":"Renate Baumgartner","doi":"10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.25","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how women (who either had relationships experiences with more than one gender or broadly defined themselves as bisexual) link their non-monogamous relationships with their bisexuality and analyses how these accounts could be argued to reflect these women’s (internalised) binegativity. While binegativity is widely researched, there is a lack of qualitative empirical work on the complexity of bisexual lives in general and of internalised binegativity in particular. This article contributes to these areas of research by drawing on interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to analyse nine qualitative interviews from an ongoing study of bisexual women in Austria. For some of these women, their experiences of non-monogamous relationship forms were linked to (internalised) binegativity, expectations of rejection and concealment of one’s identity; for others, they presented a form of agency. The women showed a range of reactions and strategies related to the positioning of bisexuality and (internalised) binegativity, particularly regarding unfaithfulness: Adoption of binegative self-attributions, excusing the antibisexual notions of others, and engaging in additional emotion work to ensure faithfulness to their partners.","PeriodicalId":91790,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of sexualities review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82635755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.97
Alison Oran, Matthew N. Cook, Sarah Waters
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.55
Nikki Hayfield, E. Halliwell, Victoria Clarke
Body image pressures for heterosexual women are well established. However, lesbian body image is less well understood, while bisexual women have largely been overlooked within the psychological literature. Further, women’s investment in ‘traditional’ appearance practices associated with femininity are underexplored. The current study explored differences between 472 heterosexual, lesbian, and bisexual women on measures of body satisfaction, body hair practices, and cosmetics use. While there were no significant differences between body satisfaction scores, lesbian and bisexual women had more positive attitudes to body hair, and were less likely to remove hair from particular parts of their bodies, than heterosexual women. Cosmetics use was highest among heterosexual women, significantly lower among bisexual women, and lowest among lesbians. We argue that these results highlight the importance of exploring the distinctiveness of bisexual, lesbian and heterosexual women’s appearance concerns and appearance practices.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2017.8.2.6
Tara Pond, P. Farvid
Mobile phone dating applications (dating apps) are a pervasive means of finding intimate partners, with Tinder as the most popular interface globally. Although this app is largely marketed towards heterosexuals, members of the queer community also utilise it. Since its inception, the internet has been very useful for non-heterosexuals seeking contact with others from their community, due to the safety and anonymity it affords them. When it comes to the internet and intimacy-seeking within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer community, bisexual women have received very limited scholarly attention. Tinder, too, has not yet received a great deal of psychological examination. To address these omissions, in this paper we examine the experiences of eight bisexual women who were interviewed in-depth about their Tinder use in New Zealand. The interview data were thematically analysed and three themes identified: Tinder as not (queer) woman friendly; the (un)safety of Tinder; and virtual (un)reality. We discuss these themes and conclude that within this domain of technologically mediated intimacies, an intersection of heteronormative, biphobic, and gendered power relations profoundly shape bisexual women’s experiences of using Tinder.
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{"title":"Psychology and gender dysphoria: Feminist and transgender perspectives","authors":"Jemma Tosh","doi":"10.4324/9781315794938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315794938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91790,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of sexualities review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83735411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2016.7.1.98
M. Wood
This study explored the positions that gay Christians adopt in navigating both a Christian and a lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) identity, particularly in the context of religious homophobia and hostility toward homosexuality. Twenty-one LGB Christians participated in either a face-to-face interview or a qualitative survey; the data were analysed using thematic analysis. The participants often framed their relationship with other Christians and with Christian institutions as a ‘battle’. In fighting this battle, participants adopted one of three stances: (1) An ‘intellectual’ position which used theology and biblical scholarship as the weapon of choice; (2) a confrontational and oppositional ‘warrior’ position, which demanded recognition of homosexuality (as a ‘gift from God’); and (3) a conciliatory position, which sought change from within through reasoning with the Church and being sympathetic to their theological position. All of these positions were underpinned by an essentialist discourse of sexuality and the framing of homosexuality as a ‘gift from God’.
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2016.7.1.29
Tove Lundberg, Matilda Wurm
The mobilisation of psychologists in Sweden working for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer (LGBTQ) wellbeing and rights has so far not succeeded in creating continuity despite several attempts to establish some kind of organisation since the mid 1990s. A new attempt was made in 2013 when the Swedish LGBTQ network for psychologists was formed following a formal decision at the congress of the Swedish Psychological Association. Even though the establishment of the network is still a work in progress, the network consists of approximately 100 members and seems to be growing. This paper describes some historical highlights from Swedish LGBTQ psychology, as well as how the network came about, underpinning perspectives and what the network aims to achieve.
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpssex.2016.7.1.91
Martin Milton is a Professor of Counselling Psychology at Regent’s University London and also works in independent practice as a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and psychotherapist. Martin has previously served on the inaugural committee of the Section when it was first established as the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section and was keynote speaker at our 2015 AGM event. He is also a former Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Counselling Psychology. In 2012 Martin received the BPS Award for the promoting of equality of opportunity. He has published widely on the topic of sexuality in the context of counselling and psychotherapy and his most recent book was entitled ‘Sexuality: Existential perspectives’ (Milton, 2014). I interviewed Martin in January 2016 about how he became involved in the Section, his career as both an academic and practitioner and the relationship between homophobia and mental health. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
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