Rather, it was a way to acknowledge the bipolar presence in an individual of the ‘attributes, instincts and desires generally attributed to males and females respectively’.
To him, bisexuality did not concern sexual preference. Faithfull, described on the title page as ‘principal of the Priory Gate School’, had something altogether less strenuous in mind. ‘Do we do it in alternate spasms, do you think, like synchronised oysters … or is one both at once?’ The book’s author, Theodore J. ‘After reading it carefully,’ she reported with evident relief, ‘I discover that you and I are admirably suited to each other.’ Warner was quick to imagine bisexuality as a kind of physiological oscillation. O n 2 January 1931, Valentine Ackland sent her new lover, Sylvia Townsend Warner, a book about bisexuality.
