@lonefighter @velma
"It felt like none of my business who he had been with before me."
True, that's private stuff. Only parts of it that may be important to share are those that will objectively impact the relationship. (Stalker ex, for example.)

Also to add for others, being bi does not mean having a sexual history with partners of at least two genders. It does not even mean having any sexual history at all.

I felt compelled to add this to account for bi erasure.

@Maeve @velma I firmly disagree with the statement “I have a right to know if a potential partner is bi”.

There are no reason for anyone to be entitled to knowing a potential partner's sexual orientation or potential transidentity. That works for other private info.

Said potential partners, however, have the right to flee those who ask.

You prefer knowing it, because of your traumatic experiences, that's vastly different. Understandable need, and it **can** be better to discuss it, but still not a right.

One has no reason to trust a mere "potential partner" with such a sensitive info. Especially in a place with strong anti-lgbt social standards or laws.

@velma Were do the biphobic stereotypes come from ?
Why, even ?
I guess that, like most if not all discriminations, it stems from domination and exploitation systems. But are there other explanations ?

Anyway, the stereotypes are so dumb.
Why would bi women accept a FFM threesome just ot please a man ? They are people too, not sextoys.
Why would bi men be born cheaters ?
Why would a bi person's sexual orientation be defined only by their current partner's perceived gender ?

(BTW i'm bi, poly, and mostly a man, but in an mono relationship with a woman. There's no risk of me cheating on her.)

@KyuubiNoKitsune Degraded and worsening life conditions are never the cause of demographic numbers plumetting, according to these tyrants.
It's always the "others" fault, here us LGBT.

Also, birth rate decline in itself is not a problem, except for the so-called "elites" that benefit from exploitation systems.

@arctanthrope Pretty sure monogamy rules in France target specific groups, but...
How is a law system that target a specific minorised culture or group of people, instead of a proven harm, be reasonable ?

@PanGodofPanic And if we complain, nationalist tell us: "La France, tu l'aimes ou tu la quittes".
It means "If you don't like France, leave France". They don't apply that to themselves except to escape taxes (Ex: Pierre-Édouard Stérin), or judicial consequences of their harmful actions (Ex: Thaïs d'Escufon).

@PanGodofPanic And about "Even in the US there’s no equivalent, at least not one that could apply for just giving someone a bed for the night."

I'll take your word from it, but that's about laws. (And I understand law can be more complicated in a federation.)

However the US have ICE that just don't care about law. (Not better: FR has the BRAV-M and several police orgs to do the dirty work.)

At least one US judge was punished to have helped an "illegal immigrant" escape ICE because the targeted person wasn't convicted of illegal stay yet. (The judge knew: they were the one judging the case about the legality of ICE's target's presence in the US.)

@PanGodofPanic
Also (un)fun fact about racist autoritarism: Our president has finally officially recognised Palestine as a country, and its people as oppressed, yet the state he leads still smear and punish support toward palestine or actions against the state and colonialism of Irael. Our country even provides weapon parts to Israël.

@PanGodofPanic Same as in the US and other european countries : by saying the real fascists are the antifascists. But France is one on the worst in the EU, if not the worst, in terms of repression of anything. When repression doesn't work, our politicians decalre that there were just not enough of it to work, and increase it.

The deshumanisation and othering of communities those in power don't like, by politicians and media alike, is well advanced and increasing. Our poorer citizens and inhabitants get poorer by the day and die of homelessness (or at home from extreme thermal conditions). Our richer scums get richer by the day.

Yeah capital·fasch·ism.

@return2ozma In France, we also have mainstream political figures that want to overturn the rights that LGBT people managed to acquire. (For example , non cishet marriage.)
Some of them even pretend to defend LGBT+ people. (Well, specifically LG people in these cases.)

We also have (the same) political figures asking for the death sentence to sexual predators specialised in children. (Except if they are from the same clique as these politicians, of course. Bonus if the predactor is not a cishet white christian)

And we still have the lgbtphobe trope about us being sexual predators by nature, espcially toward children.

Adding all that up...

@Bougie_Birdie @return2ozma On topic, fortunately there's no way a law to punish sexual practices with neither victims nor witnesses can be applied.

@Bougie_Birdie @return2ozma
Out-of-topic but serious, to bounce on your pun :
We have that in France in another context, not related to sexual activities. Giving a helping hand to someone whose presénce in France isn't considered legal. (max several years in prison and several k€ in fine, plus other harsh complementary sentences)
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000042774527/

So, giving a place to sleep to a refugee from a country with harsh repression toward LGBT+ can in practice be harshly punished. (Not in theory, since there's an exception for pure humanitarian support, but he defendant will have to prove it and convince the court.)