bisexual
意味
- 雌雄両性の;雌雄同体の
- 両性愛の
- 両性具有者(男女いずれにも性的反応を示す人)
例文
Tom is either gay or bisexual, I think.
トムは多分ゲイかバイだと思う。
Why are Japanese so prejudiced against lesbians and bisexuals?
日本人はなんでそんなにビアンとかバイとかに偏見を持つのですか?
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".