Study finds surprising number of men wearing “straight jackets” feel pressured to stay in unhappy relationships

For a significant number of people, the prison of being in a romantic relationship with a member of the wrong sex is akin to wearing a “straight jacket.”

That’s the term researchers use to describe the challenges that bisexual people encounter when dating. A new study from the University of British Columbia and Lancaster University found one of the biggest problems plaguing relationships is the “inconsistency between a person’s sexual identity or attraction, and whether they are in a same-sex or different-sex relationship.”

The issue is more common than one may think. Researchers tracked over 3,500 U.S. couples between 2017 and 2022, and found 41%(!) of women in gay relationships feel attracted to people other than women. For men, the largest number of “straight jackets”

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