Terry Gross interviewed Alan Cumming on Fresh Air yesterday and bisexuals are tweeting to tell me that Cumming's comments about his sexuality—Cumming's bisexual—struck both a chord and a blow for bi visibility.

I used to be married to a woman. Before that I had had a relationship with a man. I then had another relationship with a woman, and I since then have had relationships with men. I still would define myself as bisexual partly because that's how I feel but also because I think it's important to — I think sexuality in this country especially is seen as a very black and white thing, and I think we should encourage the gray. You know?

I don't go around in my life thinking, "Oh, my God, I'm going to have to have sex with a woman soon because I said I was bisexual!" ... It's like saying you're straight or you're gay — it's just what you are, and whatever you're doing in your life it runs obviously parallel, but it's kind of secondary to how you are inside. That's how I've always felt, and I still do, even though I'm very happily married to a really amazing man and wish to be so for the rest of my life.

So Cumming could be described as both bisexual and bi-amorous.

Later in the interview Cumming gripes about our cultural obsession with removing body hair—women shaving their pits, men shaving their chests, everybody shaving their pubes:

I'm not a hairy person. I've longed to have a hairy chest... I seem to have all my hair in my armpits, and actually it seems to cause great consternation to people. I think this obsession we have in our culture with shaving—taking away body hair on men and women—I think it's really dangerous, it's like wanting to infantilize yourself and wanting to make something sexy that is not adult, it's more prepubescent, and I think that's really weird and dangerous, don't you?

I don't think it's weird or dangerous. Shaved crotches are not to my taste and they're clearly not to Cumming's taste either. But slapping the "dangerous" label on something that turns you off—and then suggesting that that something is a danger to children—strikes me as judgey and sexphobic. People have been shaving/waxing their crotches for a couple of decades now and no studies that I'm aware of have shown adults progressing from partners with a prepubescentish lack of pubic hair to actual prepubescents. Hairless adult crotches are not slippery slopes. So... no need to start arresting waxers. They're not endangering children.

Sadly the one non-sexual, non-aesthetic benefit of all those shaved crotches—pubic lice being driven to extinction—appears to have been debunked.