In a 2022 Pew Research Center Poll, 5 percent of Americans identify as bisexual. Comparing across generations and the sexes, 12 percent of Generation Z say they're bisexual, but only 1 percent of Generation X identify as bisexual. Across all generations, far more women than men identify as bisexual, and this is especially true among Generation Z youths. Thus, the answer to the question “Do bi men exist?” is clearly yes; less evident is whether the generational difference among men is reflected in the affirmation of bisexuality.

Two men who are attracted to both women and men reveal the drastic changes that have occurred from Generation X to Generation Z in the acceptability of bisexuality among men. Writer Charles Blow, age 53, grew up in a time when “[Bisexuality]would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.” Woody Cook, age 23, believes “this is sort of the age of bisexuality... It’s a thing on its own.”

Why the difference?

A silenced bisexual teenager in the 1980s, Gen X’s Charles Blow, author of........

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