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| The image of Lady Gaga is really disturbing as she seems to just morph in front of the camera. |
A recently published Norwegian report entitled: “Sexual Orientation and Quality of Life,” commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Children, Youth and Family Affairs revealed that bisexuals, especially bisexual women, exhibit “more mental health problems, poorer self-rated health, more sexually transmitted diseases, experiences loneliness and includes several suicide attempts” than heterosexuals. The researchers have blamed so-called “minority stress” for the disparities among bisexual populations. Yet, what the study fails to comprehend is the innate dangers that are simply a part of the gay and bisexual lifestyles and the mental conditions, usually left undiagnosed and untreated, that contribute to a bisexual self-identification, including: childhood trauma, adolescent exposure to pornography, sexual disassociation, gender identity disorder, parental neglect, and peer harassment. Then, what inevitably happens to these poor souls is that they seek out healing within the lgbt community – through sexual experimentation. To make matters worse, in contemporary culture, a new wave of confused and disregarded children are being heavily influenced by popular culture that continually celebrates the progressive nature of bisexuality: “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. This phenomenon really had its roots in the gender-bending craze instigated by the British New Romantics (Duran, Duran, The Pet Shops Boys, and Boy George) in the early-1980s. This sort of sexual ambiguity was later taken up and intensified through the early-90s by Madonna during her “Erotica” phase; most explicitly in the video for “Justify My Love.” Nowadays, celebrities are frequently ambivalent about even acknowledging their heterosexuality: i.e. Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and James Franco – who recently admitted: “I wish I was gay.” For me, and my generation, Madonna was the undisputed high-priestess of this new sexual revolution. In her, and then in ourselves, we saw an embracing of bisexuality as a political and social statement, a conscious alignment with the gay community, and a refusal to be defined by alleged gender constructs. We widely misinterpreted sexuality as a fluid and ever-changing miasma that could be controlled at will; we utterly disregarded the biological. In the end, it was an exercise in extreme egotism and plain ignorance. Finally, in the greatest irony, what you discover is not more freedom, but a bizarre type of enslavement: to ever-changing social whims, your own fleeting passions, and the aimlessness that the life consumes.