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184 entitled <a target="_blank" href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/bisexuality.pdf">Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men</a> by Rieger, Chivers and <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Bailey">J. Michael Bailey</a>. 185 <br> 186 187 <hr> 188 <b>Read an article</b> on this topic: <a target="_blank" href="http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/MagArticle.cfm?Article=475&PageID=171&SID=2F61BCD15F440019472CA01253795FEB&DSN=nsrc_dsn">Sexual Prejudice: The erasure of bisexuals in academia and the media</a> 189 <font size="1" class="footertext">By Loraine Hutchins</font> 190 <hr> 191 <br> 192 193 Other than raising a few eyebrows among their more competent colleagues, this study would probably have passed relatively unnoticed, except for the fact that a gullible reporter for the New York Times happened upon it. 194 <br><br> 195 In July 2005 the New York Times then proceeded to published a not well researched <i>'popular science'</i> interpretation of this study, somewhat hysterically entitled <i> 196 <a target="_blank" href="NYTArticleJul05.html">Straight, Gay or Lying: Bisexuality Revisited</a></i>. 197 <br><br> 198 Because of the New York Times reputation and reach, this guaranteed that the story and the study would be picked up world-wide, and off we went. 199 <br> 200 201 <hr> 202 <b>Take Action:</b> Read & respond to GLAAD's piece - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.glaad.org/action/write_now_detail.php?id=3827">The New York Times Promotes anti-Bisexual Stereotypes in <i>"Straight, Gay or Lying?"</i></a> 203 <hr> 204 <br> 205 206 207 <!--- column two ---> 208 <td width="337" height="367" valign="top" class="bodytext" nowrap align="justify"> 209 210 Around October 9th 2005 the usually sensible sex therapist <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Ruth_Westheimer">Dr. Ruth Westheimer</a> told an advice seeker that they must <i>"choose"</i> their sexual orientation, since there is no such thing as <i>a bisexual person"</i>. 211 <br> 212 213 <hr> 214 <b>Take Action:</b> Read the facts & respond to <a target="_blank" href="DrRuth9Oct05.html">help correct Dr. Ruth Westheimer's mistaken notion's on bisexuality</a>. 215 <hr> 216 <br> 217 218 219 <br><br> 220 Have information to share? <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Bialogue page">LET US KNOW</a>. --- Thank you</i> 221 222 </td> 223 224 <br><br> 225 226 </td> 227 228 </tr> 229 230 </table> 231 232 </td> 233 <!-- END MAIN BODY --> 234 </tr> 235 236 <!--- Links (left side)--> 237 <tr> 238 <!--- Bialogue Main Page ---> 239 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="../../../Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 240 <a href="../../../index.html">Bialogue </a> 241 </td> 242 </tr> 243 <tr> 244 <!--- Bisexual Definition Button ---> 245 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 246 <a href="../../BiDefinition.html">What Is<br>Bisexuality?</a> 247 </td> 248 </tr> <tr> 249 <!--- Voter Info Button ---> 250 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="../../../Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 251 <a href="../../VoterInfo.html">Voter Info</a> 252 </td> 253 </tr> 254 255 <!--- Bialogue Action List ---> 256 <tr> 257 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="../../../Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 258 259 </td> 260 </tr> 261 <tr> 262 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="../../../Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 263 <b>ACTIONS</b> 264 </td> 265 </tr> 266 <!--- Bialoge Action Alert Pages (Blog) ---> 267 <tr> 268 <td width="112" height="20" align="center" class="menutext" nowrap background="../../../Images/LeftSide.jpg"> 269 <a href="http://bialogue.livejournal.com/">Current Alerts</a> 270 </td> 271 </tr> 272 <!--- Unicorn (do you exist?) 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