Granted, we are neither sociologists nor psychologists, but doesn't it seem like if you're trying to determine if something like bisexuality in women is a phase or not, you should maybe talk to people who have been through said phase and gone back to being straight? (And yes, we're all going to refer to the "phase" in question as "college and/or private school," ba-dum-dum.)
Being bisexual is a distinct orientation, not a temporary stage, says the study by Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah. It is being published next week in the January issue of Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
Diamond conducted face-to-face interviews around New York state in 1995, when the women (who identified themselves as lesbian, bisexual or unlabeled, but not heterosexual) were ages 18-25. She then spoke with them by phone every two years.
The only thing we can think of is that maybe there's something about "unlabeled" that we're missing. Seriously, can anyone out there help us out with this?