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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Happily married for 10 years, Richard Sharrard, a dance instructor, and Tina Tessina, a psychotherapist and writer, blend in nicely enough with their neighbors in the middle-class community of Long Beach, Calif. But the couple's life-style is far from ordinary: Sharrard and Tessina are openly and unapologetically bisexual. During their unusually flexible marriage, Sharrard has enjoyed liaisons with half a dozen men, while Tessina has taken two female lovers. "It's the best of both worlds," declares Sharrard, who thinks nothing could be more natural than bisexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bisexuality What Is It? | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

According to Kinsey, sexuality is a continuum. On the heterosexual-to- homosex ual scale of 0 to 6 that he devised, only 50% of male subjects can be classified as exclusively straight and 4% exclusively gay. Sharrard falls right in the middle of the Kinsey scale, equally attracted to men and women, but such balance is rare. Tessina calls herself a 2, mostly heterosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bisexuality What Is It? | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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