Janna L. Horowitz: Janna L. Horowitz received her M.S.Ed. in counseling psychology from the University of Southern California in 1996. She is currently working on her doctorate in counseling psychology at USC, with specialty areas in college student development, gender, and sexual orientation.
The Bisexual Option is divided into three parts. The first part, What is Bisexuality, addresses The Threat bisexuality poses to heterosexual and homosexual people, the myth of nonexistence, and the either/or stance of society. It also tackles a definition of bisexuality, and the difference between emotional and sexual intimacy and how they related to hetero- and homophobia. The first part concludes with an analysis of the Oedipus Complex and sexuality. The second part, Bisexuality and Health, refers to the psychological health of bisexual people and includes brief case study profiles of both healthy and troubled bisexuals, as defined by Dr. Klein. The third part, The Bisexual in Society, includes sociological findings of a lack of a bisexual community or subculture, the bisexual in history and the arts, and the bisexual future. The book concludes with an Appendix A, The Bisexual as Portrayed in the Arts, and an Appendix B, Bisexual Survey Results as conducted by Dr. Klein from a Bisexual Forum meeting in New York City in 1976-1977.
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