?I've been answering questions about bisexuality - curious and benevolent, accusatory and suspicious, disgusting and discriminatory - for most of my life. Until recently, I was always answering just from my perspective. I didn't know what other bisexuals did, or thought, or said. Then one day I woke up and decided that I wanted to find out. I started coming out to more people and asking them about their sexuality. In this process I realised that most of my close friends identify as bisexual, and that I had no idea because I never asked them. I wondered what other questions I wasn't asking. And then it struck me. What does science say about this?'

In Bi Julia Shaw takes a fresh look at bisexuality, how to talk about it without feeling awkward, what science tells us about sexuality, how to build a more sexually inclusive society and why more people don't consider bisexuality an option. This is a personal and scientific manifesto, and a declaration of love and respect, for the sexually in-between.

Dr Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at University College London. She is actively involved in bisexual research and is the founder of the international Bisexual Research Group. Dr Shaw also has a hit BBC podcast, Bad People, where together with her co-host she uses research to examine some of society's most pressing issues. She is the author of The Memory Illusion, which was published in 20 languages, and Making Evil, which was a bestseller in Canada and Germany. She lives in London.
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