For my final paper for the Sociology of Human Sexuality, I stupidly decided to take up the topic of bisexuality and monogamy. That is not to say that the topic is stupid, but rather believing I could tackle it in 12-15 pages for an unreceptive audience was stupid on my part. I had intended to paraphrase my paper here. However, it didn’t turn out anything like I had wanted. The literature that I had hoped to find… simply didn’t exist. Instead, I found myself spending more pages than necessary having to define what “bisexuality” and “monogamy” are… apparently no one knows. I can’t help but laugh at that. Everyone knows instinctively what they are and what they mean; even if those self-created definitions are false.

In the end, due to time and page constraints, I didn’t have the opportunity to address the reason that I had written the paper in the first place. I’m not entirely proud of the end result. I feel like I had to compromise my opinions, beliefs, and what I felt relevant to the topic in order to address what the prof wold be receptive to so that I could get the grade in this class that I needed in order to graduate. I think that in and of itself is saying quite a lot.

Also, I didn’t realize how offended I would get reading through existing theories and research for this paper. It really was a painful process… and became difficult trying to examine the issue from as unbiased a perspective as I could.

Hahahaha I totally just realized that I never put a conclusion on my paper!