Angela

The evidence that bisexual individuals are more likely to experience intimate personal violence (IPV) than gay or straight people is, not to put too fine a point on it, generally piss weak and riddled with significant limitations including all the usual problems you get with a very limited supply of small scale cross-sectional self-report studies using convenience samples that lack any consistent definitions or measures of IPV, most of which come from a single country, the United States, limiting their generalisability across other countries with differing cultural attitudes to bisexuality. Despite these limitations, several risk factors have been tentatively identified, the most significant one being that being a bisexual female with a male partner. Sexual infidelity is also an identified risk factor - for women - as is being in an open relationship - also for women - and one study also found a direct effect of having either a bisexual male partner or a male partner that views bisexuality in a negative light, and the people on the sharp end of that increase in risk were... ...women. It's almost as if the common factor in all this isn't so much bisexuality as being female but, as I mentioned earlier, the evidence base is rather sketchy and lacking in either well-designed longitudinal studies or credible epidemiological research, so its difficult to draw any strong conclusions from any of this... ...other than that the greatest risk of interpersonal violence is borne by *checks notes* WOMEN. Any ways here's some actual research - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…