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Julia Shaw
Criminal Psychologist and Author; Honorary Research Associate, University College London
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Bisexuality explained by psychologist | Julia Shaw and Lex Fridman

📅 Oct 20, 2025 Lex Clips 9 MIN 21975 VIEWS 16 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
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  1. 1:10What's the right way to think about it?
  2. 1:52What's the biggest thing that people misunderstand about bisexuality?
Julia Shaw 0:02 ↗
I wrote a book called Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality. And I did that after I created a bisexual research group. So, I wasn't a sexuality researcher, but as a bi person and a scientist, I was interested in the science of bisexuality. And I couldn't really find it. It was really hard to figure out what people were actually learning about bisexual people in comparison to other kinds of queer people. And one of the things I found is that the terms that are used are not necessarily bi. And so, it could be things like plurisexual. So, if you type into Google Scholar the word bisexual, you're going to get a lot of confusing things. Also, because bisexual is used for like two sexes, where you have multiple sex or you can change. And so, the bisexual...
Interviewer 0:46 ↗
Right. Yeah, which is different entirely.
Julia Shaw 0:49 ↗
And so, I think partly out of that, researchers started using words like plurisexual. And omnisexual is another one. And so, if you're looking for research on this, plurisexual is probably the word.
Interviewer 0:58 ↗
What's omnisexual mean?
Julia Shaw 1:00 ↗
It's the same. It's just another word, where it's all. Sometimes pansexual is also used. And again, the idea being that it's all genders.
Interviewer 1:10 ↗
So, how should we think about bisexuality? Is it fluid? Like day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year fluid who you're attracted to? Or is it at the same time have the capacity to be attracted to anyone or attracted to everyone? What's the right way to think about it?

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Shaw, J. (2025, October 20). Bisexuality explained by psychologist | Julia Shaw and Lex Fridman [Interview transcript]. Lex Clips. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3134585/

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Julia Shaw. "Bisexuality explained by psychologist | Julia Shaw and Lex Fridman." Lex Clips, 20 Oct. 2025. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3134585/.

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@misc{shaw2025_3134585,
  author       = {Julia Shaw},
  title        = {Bisexuality explained by psychologist | Julia Shaw and Lex Fridman},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Lex Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2025},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3134585/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}