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L’objectif de cette thèse est de chercher à savoir ce qui, dans la société occidentale actuelle et notamment en France, caractérise nos choix en termes de sexualité aussi bien dans nos comportements intimes que dans notre représentation sociale identitaire. La bisexualité nous semble incarner une nouvelle forme de sexualité qui pose le problème du lien qui existerait entre le sexe – et tous les dispositifs qui le sous-tendent, comme, par exemple l’identité bisexuelle, le militantisme bisexuel ou plus encore la simple pratique de la bisexualité – et les institutions sociales en place actuellement. Notre thèse a pris pour point départ la question de notre liberté sexuelle pour aboutir à l’hypothèse selon laquelle nous nous révélons être les acteurs autant que les victimes d’un pouvoir de la sexualité qui mêle action institutionnelle sur notre sphère privée et résistance de chacun d’entre nous dans l’espace public. Ainsi, la sexualité est prise ici comme un objet où des enjeux politiques se jouent et participent à un mécanisme complexe dont les rouages font interagir des notions multiples : le corps, le désir, la procréation, la parentalité, mais encore le genre, comme jonction de cet ensemble. Si nous avons prioritairement étudié la bisexualité, nous n’avons, dans ce travail, jamais quitté l’analyse critique de l’hétérosexualité et de l’homosexualité – et de l’homoparentalité – dans une société française que nous interrogeons par rapport à la pratique de la sexualité de ses membres. Une enquête de terrain a donc été nécessaire pour comprendre comment les Français considèrent ce lien tout en les interrogeant sur les notions qui sont chères à l’ensemble de notre problématique. Après avoir préalablement travaillé sur les théories psychanalytiques qui concernent la sexualité et les sexualités – notamment les théories freudiennes – notre étude de terrain nous a permis d’aboutir à la thèse selon laquelle l’existence réelle d’une sexualité politique démontre que nous entrons dans une nouvelle ère sexuelle, de nouvelles frontières entre ce qui est privé et ce qui est public naissant. En ce sens, nous sommes peut-être en droit de parler d’une nouvelle révolution sexuelle faisant suite à celle qu’a connu l’Occident dans les années 70, révolution sexuelle où, comme Michel Foucault l’affirmait déjà, la sexualité s’avère aisément démontrer sa puissance socio-politique, jusqu’à pouvoir parler de « monarchie du sexe ». A travers une analyse qui s’appuie sur une étude théorique et une enquête de terrain, cette thèse tente de mieux comprendre ce qui guide nos choix sexuels et affectifs et la façon dont nous gérons nos sentiments amoureux dans une société où les liens qui unissent le discours sexuel et les représentations politiques de cette même sexualité, semblent ambigus. Qu’en est-il, alors, de notre liberté sexuelle ? Plus encore, comment considérer la place nouvelle que les sexualités minoritaires prennent aujourd’hui en France ? La bisexualité est-elle l’incarnation d’une nouvelle révolution de la façon de vivre la sexualité et d’aimer ? / The aim of this thesis is to find out what guides our choices in terms of sexuality, private behaviour, in our social identity representation in western society and more precisely in France. Bisexuality embodies a new form of sexuality that questions the link that may exist between sex (and all the devices that go along with such as bisexual identity, bisexual militancy and the actual practice of bisexuality) and social institutions. Our thesis goes from the question of our sexual freedom all the way up to the hypotheses that we are the stakeholders and the victims at the same time of a power of sexuality that mingles institutional actions in our private sphere and opposition in our public sphere. Therefore sexuality becomes the object of political stakes and the object of a complex mechanism, a kind of machinery that intermingles with a variety of notions : body, desire, procreation, parenthood and gender as a link-up of the whole. While bisexuality being a priority in this study, the critical analysis of heterosexuality, homosexuality and homoparenthood in the french society is transversal, being questioned in relation to the actual practice of sexuality in the french society. A first survey helped us understand how french people look at this link and question the key-ideas wich are essential to our thesis. The psychanalytic theories on sexuality – and sexualities – and specifically the Freudian theories, together with our field survey, shows that we might be at the edge of a new sexual era, presenting new boundaries between the private and the public spheres. This allows us to talk about a new sexual revolution following the one that occured in the Occident in the 1970s. This sexual revolution, as asserted in his time by Michel Foucault, brings to mind the idea of a sexuality that reveals its social and political power and can lead us to speak of a « sexual monarchy ». Through this analysis based on a theoretical study and a field survey, this thesis helps us understand our sexual and emotional choices and the way we handle our love feeling in a society where the links between sexual speeches and their political representations seem to be ambiguous. This leads us to question our sexual freedom. Furthermore, how to consider the new place of sexual minorities in France today ? Is bisexuality the embodiment of a new revolution regarding how we live our sexuality and the way we love each other ?

L’objectif de cette thèse est de chercher à savoir ce qui, dans la société occidentale actuelle et notamment en France, caractérise nos choix en termes de sexualité aussi bien dans nos comportements intimes que dans notre représentation sociale identitaire. La bisexualité nous semble incarner une nouvelle forme de sexualité qui pose le problème du lien qui existerait entre le sexe – et tous les dispositifs qui le sous-tendent, comme, par exemple l’identité bisexuelle, le militantisme bisexuel ou plus encore la simple pratique de la bisexualité – et les institutions sociales en place actuellement. Notre thèse a pris pour point départ la question de notre liberté sexuelle pour aboutir à l’hypothèse selon laquelle nous nous révélons être les acteurs autant que les victimes d’un pouvoir de la sexualité qui mêle action institutionnelle sur notre sphère privée et résistance de chacun d’entre nous dans l’espace public. Ainsi, la sexualité est prise ici comme un objet où des enjeux politiques se jouent et participent à un mécanisme complexe dont les rouages font interagir des notions multiples : le corps, le désir, la procréation, la parentalité, mais encore le genre, comme jonction de cet ensemble. Si nous avons prioritairement étudié la bisexualité, nous n’avons, dans ce travail, jamais quitté l’analyse critique de l’hétérosexualité et de l’homosexualité – et de l’homoparentalité – dans une société française que nous interrogeons par rapport à la pratique de la sexualité de ses membres. Une enquête de terrain a donc été nécessaire pour comprendre comment les Français considèrent ce lien tout en les interrogeant sur les notions qui sont chères à l’ensemble de notre problématique. Après avoir préalablement travaillé sur les théories psychanalytiques qui concernent la sexualité et les sexualités – notamment les théories freudiennes – notre étude de terrain nous a permis d’aboutir à la thèse selon laquelle l’existence réelle d’une sexualité politique démontre que nous entrons dans une nouvelle ère sexuelle, de nouvelles frontières entre ce qui est privé et ce qui est public naissant. En ce sens, nous sommes peut-être en droit de parler d’une nouvelle révolution sexuelle faisant suite à celle qu’a connu l’Occident dans les années 70, révolution sexuelle où, comme Michel Foucault l’affirmait déjà, la sexualité s’avère aisément démontrer sa puissance socio-politique, jusqu’à pouvoir parler de « monarchie du sexe ». A travers une analyse qui s’appuie sur une étude théorique et une enquête de terrain, cette thèse tente de mieux comprendre ce qui guide nos choix sexuels et affectifs et la façon dont nous gérons nos sentiments amoureux dans une société où les liens qui unissent le discours sexuel et les représentations politiques de cette même sexualité, semblent ambigus. Qu’en est-il, alors, de notre liberté sexuelle ? Plus encore, comment considérer la place nouvelle que les sexualités minoritaires prennent aujourd’hui en France ? La bisexualité est-elle l’incarnation d’une nouvelle révolution de la façon de vivre la sexualité et d’aimer ? / The aim of this thesis is to find out what guides our choices in terms of sexuality, private behaviour, in our social identity representation in western society and more precisely in France. Bisexuality embodies a new form of sexuality that questions the link that may exist between sex (and all the devices that go along with such as bisexual identity, bisexual militancy and the actual practice of bisexuality) and social institutions. Our thesis goes from the question of our sexual freedom all the way up to the hypotheses that we are the stakeholders and the victims at the same time of a power of sexuality that mingles institutional actions in our private sphere and opposition in our public sphere. Therefore sexuality becomes the object of political stakes and the object of a complex mechanism, a kind of machinery that intermingles with a variety of notions : body, desire, procreation, parenthood and gender as a link-up of the whole. While bisexuality being a priority in this study, the critical analysis of heterosexuality, homosexuality and homoparenthood in the french society is transversal, being questioned in relation to the actual practice of sexuality in the french society. A first survey helped us understand how french people look at this link and question the key-ideas wich are essential to our thesis. The psychanalytic theories on sexuality – and sexualities – and specifically the Freudian theories, together with our field survey, shows that we might be at the edge of a new sexual era, presenting new boundaries between the private and the public spheres. This allows us to talk about a new sexual revolution following the one that occured in the Occident in the 1970s. This sexual revolution, as asserted in his time by Michel Foucault, brings to mind the idea of a sexuality that reveals its social and political power and can lead us to speak of a « sexual monarchy ». Through this analysis based on a theoretical study and a field survey, this thesis helps us understand our sexual and emotional choices and the way we handle our love feeling in a society where the links between sexual speeches and their political representations seem to be ambiguous. This leads us to question our sexual freedom. Furthermore, how to consider the new place of sexual minorities in France today ? Is bisexuality the embodiment of a new revolution regarding how we live our sexuality and the way we love each other ?

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marina Ferreira da Rosa Ribeiro.pdf: 792731 bytes, checksum: 7c1c54299532a5b866af277b04f1a74d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main aim of this study was to find grounds and support from the psychoanalytical literature for the existence of specific psychological vicissitudes along the path from baby to girl to woman. The concepts put forward by certain psychoanalysts regarding this very intricate relationship and their effects on the continual challenge of becoming a woman and on the transmission of feminineness were investigated and analyzed. Freud s observations on the inexorable suppression that covers up the primordial relationship between mothers and their daughters were the starting point. Expressions for the nuances of the vestiges of this archaic relationship with mothers were sought; for daughters, their mothers are both the primary and the secondary objects of identification. Mothers eroticize their baby girls, leaving sensual traces for future adult enjoyment of female sexuality. In this relationship of like that engenders like, there is a potential risk of narcissistic entrapment and symbiotic illusion. Hostility between mothers and daughters was taken to be a search for psychological differentiation, which is always present to a greater or lesser extent. The passion between mother and daughter was shown firstly through the myth of Demeter and Persephone. The tragedy of Electra was dealt with as the other face of passion: hate. The conceptual framework surrounding feminineness in psychoanalysis was investigated and linked in, and the origin and development of the following concepts was explained: primary female identification (Paulo de Carvalho Ribeiro), primary homosexuality (Jacqueline Godfrind), primary female position or phase of feminineness (Melanie Klein) and primary maternalism and primary femaleness (Florence Guignard). The film Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman was analyzed, focusing on the unsustainable nostalgia of meeting the mother, which was always dreamed of and never achieved. Continuing the reflections on the film, the male viewpoint and its indissociable dialectic connection with the female viewpoint is demonstrated. This coming together between female and male viewpoints brings to the fore the concept of psychological bisexuality. The different objective rules of mothers and fathers were also discussed. Two clinical constructions were presented: Zoe and Liz. Finally, the preciousness and tanatic , or the strength and vulnerability of the transmission of the feminineness from mothers to daughters were investigated / O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é fundamentar e sustentar, pela literatura psicanalítica, a existência de vicissitudes psíquicas específicas na trajetória bebê-menina- mulher. Investigo e analiso as concepções levantadas por alguns psicanalistas sobre tão intrincada relação, e seus efeitos no contínuo desafio de tornar-se mulher, assim como na transmissão da feminilidade. Parto das observações de Freud sobre o recalque inexorável que encobre os primórdios da relação de uma mãe com sua filha. Busco explicitar as nuances dos vestígios dessa relação arcaica com a mãe, que é, para a menina, tanto o objeto de identificação primário quanto o secundário. É a mãe quem erotiza seu bebê menina, deixando marcas sensuais para o futuro desfrutar adulto da sexualidade feminina. Há nessa relação do mesmo que engendra o mesmo, um risco pontecializado para a cilada narcísica e a ilusão simbiótica. A hostilidade entre mãe e filha é compreendida como uma busca de diferenciação psíquica, sempre presente, em maior ou menor intensidade. Apresento a paixão entre mãe e filha, primeiramente no mito de Deméter e Perséfone; abordo a tragédia de Electra como a outra face da paixão o ódio. Investigo e articulo a trama conceitual que cerca a concepção da feminilidade em psicanálise, e faço uma explanação da origem e desenvolvimento dos seguintes conceitos: identificação feminina primária (Paulo de Carvalho Ribeiro) homossexualidade primária (Jacqueline Godfrind), posição feminina primária ou fase da feminilidade (Melanie Klein) e, o materno primário e o feminino primário (Florence Guignard). Analiso o filme Sonata de Outono de Ingmar Bergman, sob o enfoque da insustentável nostalgia do encontro com a mãe, sempre sonhado e jamais alcançado. Na continuidade da reflexão a respeito do filme, coloco em evidência o olhar masculino e sua indissociável e dialética articulação com o olhar feminino. Essa aproximação entre o feminino e o masculino traz à tona o conceito de bissexualidade psíquica. O estatuto diverso da mãe e do pai como objeto também é discutido. Apresento duas construções clínicas: Zoe e Liz. Enfim, investigo o precioso e o tanático ou a força e a vulnerabilidade da transmissão da feminilidade de mãe em filha

<p>The purpose of the essay is to by means of a quantitative method investigate what the portrayal of GLBT-people looks like in a selection of Swedish and New Zealand newspapers. The essay focuses on aspects such as the gender ratio between GLBT-people who are mentioned and also those who are allowed to speak out in the newspapers. Also in what proportions the newspapers portrays the different fractions of the GLBT-term, what subjects are covered and what types of sources are used are areas of interest.</p><p>The analysis is conducted through a quantitative research method where two Swedish newspapers (Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter) and two New Zealand newspapers (The Dominion Post and The New Zealand Herald) were selected. Three periods of 15 days were selected for each newspaper and electronic databases were used in order to try and collect all articles with relevance for this study.</p><p>The theoretical background consists of Tiina Rosenberg’s theories about media’s role in the individuals’ identity shaping, Nina Björk’s feminist theories connected to gender and power, and the patriarchal structure of society, and also Anders Sahlstrand’s accounts of journalism’s use of sources and their effect on the audience’s perception of the news presented.</p><p>The main results from the analysis points towards preponderance in the occurrence of male homosexuality and male homosexuals. Elite sources occur more often than non-elite, and GLBT-males are more often used as elite sources than GLBT-women, though due the analysis being based on a low number of articles the level of generalization from the results is questionable.</p>

<p>This thesis deals with questions concerning ongoing constructions of heterosexuality as a norm in the Swedish church. Empirically the study is based partly on interviews with thirteen homo- and bisexual priests, one district visitor and one church politician and partly on some of the church’s own inquiries and documents concerning the question of Christianity and ”deviant” sexuality.</p><p>The aim for this study is to examine how norms for sexuality, coexistence and gender are repeated in the documents created by the Swedish church itself about homosexuality and Christianity and to discern how these norms are present and have sense – are reproduced, challenged and transformed in life stories of Christian homo- and bisexual individuals. To be able to see how the notion of homosexuality as abnormal is reproduced, secured and challenged I have chosen to interpret texts, observations and life stories from a critical discourse perspective. In this theoretical tradition it is central to stress how, or rather to investigate what strategies are used to produce and maintain notions of ”abnormality”.</p><p>One dominating view in the discussions within the church is that homosexuals and heterosexuals have equal value but that partnership cannot be equated with marriage. This understanding is expressed in my examples of formations of heteronormativity within the church.</p><p>In the interview persons’ narratives there are discourses represented that are articulated in the church’s own inquiries but the narratives also express counter discourses. They speak about themselves in relation to, for example, imperative heterosexuality, homosexual ideals, core family ideals, theological way of thinking and dichotomizing understanding of gender. I have identified several ”uses” in the narratives and all of them are contained in an overall Christian homosexual ”us”.</p><p>Instead of viewing themselves as being ”wrong” some of the interview persons have moved the problem to the heteronormativity. Experiences of not being part of the norm have made them strong and willing to struggle and fight for their rights. This position, outside the norm, is by some viewed positively. The homosexuals’ experiences of oppression have led to a desire to liberate the church from homophobia and show ”the true” church, where no one is discriminated.</p><p>Homosexuals are accepted within the church, but only as deviants. This way heterosexuality is being made the superior category. Its meaning and superior position cannot be questioned according to many of the church’s representatives. Still, this is exactly what is happening when homosexuals are increasingly visible to the public and when they challenge the heterosexual norm. This provocation makes the heterosexual norm visible and forces representatives of the norm to deal with it!</p>

The purpose of the essay is to by means of a quantitative method investigate what the portrayal of GLBT-people looks like in a selection of Swedish and New Zealand newspapers. The essay focuses on aspects such as the gender ratio between GLBT-people who are mentioned and also those who are allowed to speak out in the newspapers. Also in what proportions the newspapers portrays the different fractions of the GLBT-term, what subjects are covered and what types of sources are used are areas of interest. The analysis is conducted through a quantitative research method where two Swedish newspapers (Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter) and two New Zealand newspapers (The Dominion Post and The New Zealand Herald) were selected. Three periods of 15 days were selected for each newspaper and electronic databases were used in order to try and collect all articles with relevance for this study. The theoretical background consists of Tiina Rosenberg’s theories about media’s role in the individuals’ identity shaping, Nina Björk’s feminist theories connected to gender and power, and the patriarchal structure of society, and also Anders Sahlstrand’s accounts of journalism’s use of sources and their effect on the audience’s perception of the news presented. The main results from the analysis points towards preponderance in the occurrence of male homosexuality and male homosexuals. Elite sources occur more often than non-elite, and GLBT-males are more often used as elite sources than GLBT-women, though due the analysis being based on a low number of articles the level of generalization from the results is questionable.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de chercher à savoir ce qui, dans la société occidentale actuelle et notamment en France, caractérise nos choix en termes de sexualité aussi bien dans nos comportements intimes que dans notre représentation sociale identitaire. La bisexualité nous semble incarner une nouvelle forme de sexualité qui pose le problème du lien qui existerait entre le sexe – et tous les dispositifs qui le sous-tendent, comme, par exemple l’identité bisexuelle, le militantisme bisexuel ou plus encore la simple pratique de la bisexualité – et les institutions sociales en place actuellement. Notre thèse a pris pour point départ la question de notre liberté sexuelle pour aboutir à l’hypothèse selon laquelle nous nous révélons être les acteurs autant que les victimes d’un pouvoir de la sexualité qui mêle action institutionnelle sur notre sphère privée et résistance de chacun d’entre nous dans l’espace public. Ainsi, la sexualité est prise ici comme un objet où des enjeux politiques se jouent et participent à un mécanisme complexe dont les rouages font interagir des notions multiples : le corps, le désir, la procréation, la parentalité, mais encore le genre, comme jonction de cet ensemble. Si nous avons prioritairement étudié la bisexualité, nous n’avons, dans ce travail, jamais quitté l’analyse critique de l’hétérosexualité et de l’homosexualité – et de l’homoparentalité – dans une société française que nous interrogeons par rapport à la pratique de la sexualité de ses membres. Une enquête de terrain a donc été nécessaire pour comprendre comment les Français considèrent ce lien tout en les interrogeant sur les notions qui sont chères à l’ensemble de notre problématique. Après avoir préalablement travaillé sur les théories psychanalytiques qui concernent la sexualité et les sexualités – notamment les théories freudiennes – notre étude de terrain nous a permis d’aboutir à la thèse selon laquelle l’existence réelle d’une sexualité politique démontre que nous entrons dans une nouvelle ère sexuelle, de nouvelles frontières entre ce qui est privé et ce qui est public naissant. En ce sens, nous sommes peut-être en droit de parler d’une nouvelle révolution sexuelle faisant suite à celle qu’a connu l’Occident dans les années 70, révolution sexuelle où, comme Michel Foucault l’affirmait déjà, la sexualité s’avère aisément démontrer sa puissance socio-politique, jusqu’à pouvoir parler de « monarchie du sexe ». A travers une analyse qui s’appuie sur une étude théorique et une enquête de terrain, cette thèse tente de mieux comprendre ce qui guide nos choix sexuels et affectifs et la façon dont nous gérons nos sentiments amoureux dans une société où les liens qui unissent le discours sexuel et les représentations politiques de cette même sexualité, semblent ambigus. Qu’en est-il, alors, de notre liberté sexuelle ? Plus encore, comment considérer la place nouvelle que les sexualités minoritaires prennent aujourd’hui en France ? La bisexualité est-elle l’incarnation d’une nouvelle révolution de la façon de vivre la sexualité et d’aimer ? / The aim of this thesis is to find out what guides our choices in terms of sexuality, private behaviour, in our social identity representation in western society and more precisely in France. Bisexuality embodies a new form of sexuality that questions the link that may exist between sex (and all the devices that go along with such as bisexual identity, bisexual militancy and the actual practice of bisexuality) and social institutions. Our thesis goes from the question of our sexual freedom all the way up to the hypotheses that we are the stakeholders and the victims at the same time of a power of sexuality that mingles institutional actions in our private sphere and opposition in our public sphere. Therefore sexuality becomes the object of political stakes and the object of a complex mechanism, a kind of machinery that intermingles with a variety of notions : body, desire, procreation, parenthood and gender as a link-up of the whole. While bisexuality being a priority in this study, the critical analysis of heterosexuality, homosexuality and homoparenthood in the french society is transversal, being questioned in relation to the actual practice of sexuality in the french society. A first survey helped us understand how french people look at this link and question the key-ideas wich are essential to our thesis. The psychanalytic theories on sexuality – and sexualities – and specifically the Freudian theories, together with our field survey, shows that we might be at the edge of a new sexual era, presenting new boundaries between the private and the public spheres. This allows us to talk about a new sexual revolution following the one that occured in the Occident in the 1970s. This sexual revolution, as asserted in his time by Michel Foucault, brings to mind the idea of a sexuality that reveals its social and political power and can lead us to speak of a « sexual monarchy ». Through this analysis based on a theoretical study and a field survey, this thesis helps us understand our sexual and emotional choices and the way we handle our love feeling in a society where the links between sexual speeches and their political representations seem to be ambiguous. This leads us to question our sexual freedom. Furthermore, how to consider the new place of sexual minorities in France today ? Is bisexuality the embodiment of a new revolution regarding how we live our sexuality and the way we love each other ?

Swedish: Det här kandidatarbetet undersöker om karaktärer med icke-normativ sexualitet finns representerade i digitala spel och hur dessa framställs. Arbetet har även fokus på de reaktioner samhället har visat i samband med att spel som behandlar ämnet icke-normativ sexualitet kommit ut på marknaden. Syftet är att uppmärksamma och ge insikt om icke-normativ sexualitet som ämne och hur diskussionen av detta kan leda till en utveckling inom spelmediet. Informationen som användes för att undersöka ämnet och dess reaktioner finns sammanställt under ett forskningsmomentet, vilket sedan utvecklas till flera noveller. Dessa noveller har sedan användes i en undersökning som genomfördes av 11 stycken deltagare. English: This bachelor thesis investigates if characters with non-normative sexuality are represented in digital games and how these are portrayed. The thesis&apos; focus is also to study the reactions games dealing with the subject of non-normative sexuality have received from society, and how the discussion about this can lead to a growth for games as a medium. The information used to analyze this subject and its reactions is collected from a time of researching, which later was developed into a number of short stories. These short stories were then used to conduct a survey answered by 11 respondents. Keywords: Homosexuality, bisexuality, digital games, non-normative sexuality, interpretation, game medium.

Abstract Bisexuality became a viable identity in Finnish sexual culture in the early 1990’s. Prior to this, bisexuality was not a concept to which identities could be credibly attached. Instead, the concept was used to explain the fundamental nature of human sexuality. This usage also played a role in sexual minority politics, explaining the existence of homosexuality and justifying its acceptance. Bisexuality has helped define the border between comprehensible and incomprehensible sexuality, at certain times strengthening the normal, at other times positioning itself among the weirdest of the weird. The research material of this dissertation includes volumes of publications by the Finnish organizations active in sexual minority politics from the years 1969–1994, volumes of porn magazines from the years 1972–2006, a selection of single articles collected from mainstream press from the years 1993–2012 as well as interviews of 40 Finnish bisexuals from the years 1999, 2005 and 2009–2010. There is a total of 52 interviews, 12 of the informants having been interviewed twice. These interviews form a longitudinal study of Finnish bisexuals and their experiences. This doctoral thesis explores the question of how changes in Finnish legislation, sexual minority politics and media landscape have affected the concept of bisexuality and the experiences of the people who define their sexuality through that concept. This research traces the processes which made bisexuality a viable identity term in Finland after the removal of same-sex fornication from the criminal law. The concept of bisexuality has seen frequent use in porn as well, and the study reflects on how bisexual experiences can be characterized in a situation where the concept of bisexuality has been pornified. This research explains how bisexuality evolved from an instrument of sexual minority politics in the 1970’s and 1980’s to a concept employed by identity politics starting from the 1990’s, and finally to a term which can be used to entice and entertain different audiences in the 2010’s. / Tiivistelmä Biseksuaalisuus identiteettinä on tullut suomalaisessa seksuaalikulttuurissa mahdolliseksi 1990-luvun alkupuolelta lähtien. Ennen tätä biseksuaalisuus ei ollut käsite, johon identiteettiä olisi uskottavasti voinut kiinnittää, vaan käsite, jonka avulla selitettiin inhimillisen seksuaalisuuden perusluonnetta. Tässä roolissa käsite toimi myös seksuaalivähemmistöpolitiikassa homoseksuaalisuuden olemassaolon ja hyväksyttävyyden oikeuttajana. Biseksuaalisuus on määrittänyt ymmärrettävän ja käsittämättömän seksuaalisen halun rajaa, välillä toimien normaalin vahvistajana, välillä sijoittuen oudoista oudoimman alueelle. Väitöstutkimuksen aineistona on seksuaalivähemmistöpoliittisten järjestöjen julkaisujen vuosikertoja vuosilta 1969-1994, pornolehtien vuosikertoja vuosilta 1972–2006, valtavirtalehdistöstä kerätty, yksittäisistä artikkeleista koostuva aineisto vuosilta 1993–2012, sekä 40 suomalaisen biseksuaalin haastattelua vuosilta 1999, 2005 ja 2009–2010. Yhteensä haastatteluja on 52, eli 12 haastateltavaa on haastateltu kahdesti. Haastattelut muodostavat suomalaisia biseksuaaleja ja heidän kokemuksiaan käsittelevän pitkittäistutkimuksen. Väitöskirjassa vastataan siihen, miten muutokset suomalaisessa lainsäädännössä, seksuaalivähemmistöpolitiikassa ja mediamaisemassa ovat vaikuttaneet biseksuaalisuuden käsitteeseen ja niiden ihmisten kokemuksiin, jotka määrittävät seksuaalisuutensa tuon käsitteen kautta. Tutkimus jäljittää sitä, millaisten prosessien kautta biseksuaalisuudesta tuli mahdollinen identiteettitermi samansukupuolisen haureuden rikoslaista poistamisen jälkeisessä Suomessa. Biseksuaalisuuden käsite on taajaan käytössä myös pornossa, ja tutkimus pohtii myös, miten biseksuaalista kokemusta voi luonnehtia tilanteessa, jossa biseksuaalisuuden käsite on pornoistunut. Tutkimus selvittää, miten biseksuaalisuus muuttui 1970- ja 1980-lukujen seksuaalivähemmistöpoliittisesta välineestä 1990-luvulta alkaen identiteettipoliittiseksi käsitteeksi, ja lopulta termiksi, jonka avulla voi 2010-luvulla viihdyttää ja houkutella erilaisia yleisöjä.