I see your point - I am reading it now. But I think she is right about the anti-sex feminists and the Religious right. The bit about Julie Bindel working for that Republican anti-sex work Fund in America is not made up. The thing that annoys me is Magnanti makes out she is the first person to challenge those kind of alliances. People like Susie Bright have been doing so for years!

Oh right well I respect people who advocate for sex workers.

One of my problems with BG is the same as my problem with BM. As soon as I questioned some of her research she blocked me on twitter. It's not very...scientific.

I don't think that is how it works. But this is an ongoing often tiring, often circular debate.

I think 'the interesting stuff' cannot wait and must be dealt with now.

no it looks at men who are *assumed* to be gay. The research is always biased towards a binary model of gender/sexuality.

and there are plenty of qualitative studies now, that acknowledge bisexuality e.g.
The Bisexuality Report:
http://www.bisexualindex.org.uk/index.php/TheBise...

and the work of Mark Simpson www.marksimpson.com

Good review. I'm a bit chagrined as I couldn't get a review copy and have only just got my copy so I will be a bit late to this myth busting party.

But 2 things:

1) Northwestern Uni is where Michael J Bailey works. Mark Simpson and I have criticised his 'sex research' as it uses things like penile plesmographs, and originally found bisexuality to not exist (except in people's imaginations). So I am wary of any quotes about sex research from that establishment.

2) Why is Belinda Brooks Gordon a 'hero' of yours? I find her banal at best and very ignorant on some issues, such as, funnily enough, bisexuality. The research she is currently supervising called The Big Gay Study erases bisexual and queer people quite blatantly.

I don't rate 'science' as highly as you seem to, when it comes to the workings of our minds. And I certainly don't rate 'psychiatry'. I have nothing to prove to those people. Or you.

Your beliefs are based on belief as much as mine.

whatevs dude. I'm not going to convince you. But I've got Freud on mine.

He didn't claim to be a 'scientist' in the way biological science is explored by scientists. He was utterly clear about the potential limitations of psychoanalytic theory.

You can call Freud what you like. He is bigger and better than us all.

well I prefer Freud to woolly minded Liberals!

I think things have changed too. But in that change, the 'gay' identity seems to have become more solid, and more 'oppressive' especially to bisexual people. A lot of 'biphobia' including that which Tom Robinson has suffered, comes from gay people themselves.