biphiliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

biphilia (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) Bisexuality.

   Coordinate term: homophilia

   • 2012 December 17, Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 186:

     […] from the outset it does not exhibit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' biphilia, of which, as Doty notes, "It's never a matter of the woman choosing either men or each other, but of having both women and men available to them."

   • 2015 January 1, Ada L. Sinacore, Freda Ginsberg, Canadian Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the 21st Century, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 114:

     Philia is the propensity to fall in love romantically with members of a particular sex or gender (または both, as in the case of biphilia). The three affectional orientations include opposite-sex, same-sex, and bidirectional.

派生語

• biphile
• biphilic

Further reading

• David A Parker (en) Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual Preference, Routledge, →ISBN, page 432: “biphilia—Recurrent attraction to both females and males.”