the purpose of the present study was to examine differences in lifestyle factors such as physical activity among homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, and heterosexual korean adolescents.the sample consisted of 74,186 adolescents from grades 7-12 (ages 12-18) who participated in the 8(th) annual korea youth risk behavior web-based survey in 2012. of this sample, only 11,829 provided enough inf...

OBJECTIVE To investigate health-related impediments to academic success for bisexual college students. PARTICIPANTS Respondents to the Fall 2011 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA II) survey who self-identified as bisexual, heterosexual, gay, or lesbian. METHODS Secondary analyses of the ACHA-NCHA II data were conducted to compare the experi...

Men who identify themselves as bisexual report feeling sexually aroused by both men and women. However, past research has not demonstrated that such men exhibit substantial genital arousal to both male and female erotic stimuli, suggesting that they identify as bisexual for reasons other than their genital arousal pattern. The purpose of the present study was to examine arousal patterns among b...

Title of Thesis: INTERSECTIONS OF GAY & BISEXUAL IDENTITY WITH FATNESS: BODY ESTEEM, INTERNALIZED HOMONEGATIVITY, AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. James Christopher Welch, Master of Education, 2016 Thesis Directed By: Professor Richard Shin, PhD, Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education This thesis examines the intersections of gay and bisexual identity with body size,...

Conflicting evidence exists regarding whether bisexual-identified men are sexually aroused to both men and women. We hypothesized that a distinct characteristic, level of curiosity about sexually diverse acts, distinguishes bisexual-identified men with and without bisexual arousal. Study 1 assessed men’s (N = 277) sexual arousal via pupil dilation to male and female sexual stimuli. Bisexual men...

BACKGROUND The morbidity of gay, lesbian or bisexual people attending family practice has not been previously assessed. We compared health measures of family practice attendees classified as lesbian, gay and bisexual. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, controlled study conducted in 13 London family practices and compared the responses of 26 lesbian and 85 bisexual classified women, with ...

OBJECTIVE This study estimates the prevalence of eating disorders in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) men and women, and examines the association between participation in the gay community and eating disorder prevalence in gay and bisexual men. METHOD One hundred and twenty six white heterosexuals and 388 white, black, Latino LGB men and women were sampled from community venues. DSM-IV diagno...

The purpose of this study was to determine if self-identified bisexual, heterosexual, and homosexual men show differential genital and subjective arousal patterns to video presentations of bisexual, heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian sexual interactions. It was predicted that, relative to heterosexual and homosexual stimuli, bisexual men would show the highest levels of sexual arousal t...

BACKGROUND Differences in sexual health-related outcomes by sexual behavior and identity remain underinvestigated among bisexual female adolescents. METHODS Data from girls (N = 875) who participated in the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey were analyzed. Weighted logistic regression models were fit to examine sexual and psychosocial health by lifetime sexual behavior (beh...

There are many similarities in gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals’ coming out experiences, but bisexual people face unique challenges. Despite this, an explicit focus on bisexual people is missing from family research. Using family systems and cultural sociological perspectives, the authors analyzed how social and cultural factors shape disclosure processes for bisexuals as they come out to...