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Judith Butler on bisexuality

In Gender Trouble, she claims that viewing bisexuality as the prediscursive, or 'natural', state of the human is an assumption stemming from the same 'regulatory fiction' created by contemporary society that would lead to the 'heterosexuality as a base state' assumption.

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I understand that saying 'bisexuality is the natural state' is problematic as it takes certain patriarchal (for lack of a better word) truths to be self-evident, but what exactly is the alternative?

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Is Butler trying to say that we are born completely sexless beings?
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No, but she is saying that sexuality is so deeply intertwined with historically and culturally contingent socialization that it makes no sense to make a distinction between "natural" and "unnatural" states with regards to sexuality. Because out epistemic processes are situated in the same cultural machinery that develops our sexuality, the question of which sexualities are natural is an empirically undecidable one, and any attempts to answer it will be overdetermined by ideology.

Butler's problem isn't with heterosexuality or bisexuality per se, it's with systems of classification that use the natural/unnatural binary to make some sexualities compulsory and others objectionable.