A body that is mine, a body that is yours:

the experience of women's bisexuality under the phenomenological-existential bias

Abstract

The bisexual movement has been conquering space as a result of the claims of social movements that constantly struggle in the search for visibility and rights. However, there are studies that reveal that bisexual people often face behavioral, clinical and psychosocial consequences arising from isolation and marginalization, referring to their self-declaration and experience as a bisexual person, both by heterosexual and homosexual individuals/communities. This research aimed to understand the meanings and pluridimensionality of existential crossings in the experience of bisexuality in women's discourses from the perspective of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existential-phenomenology. For this purpose, a phenomenological interview was carried out with 4 self-declared bisexual women. The principles of the Phenomenological Method of Investigation in Psychology by Amedeo Giorgi were used for analysis and categorization of the interviews, originating the following themes: a) The perception of the self, by me, through looking at the other; b) Invalidation, stigmas, stereotypes and prejudice: the genesis of biphobia; and c) Bisexuality and representativeness in contemporary times: expression and identification. It is concluded that such crossings stand out from the genesis of the feeling, from doubt to the certainty of oneself and one's own will, to perceiving oneself through one's own look at the other, providing the feeling before the understanding of what would become the movement the construction of their sexual identity.