“Unicorn Hunting” – Why Bisexual Women Are Called As Unicorn?




Unicorns, the mythical beasts, can be female, male or any gender. They can be
anything we want them to be. They are hard to catch or simply a very rare to find.

This term often describes a person who is very hard to find and remarkably
attractive. People began to call bisexual women as ‘unicorn’ because they are rare to find.


Who are bisexual women?


Bisexual women are attracted to both men and women. Bisexuality is romantic
attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior towards both males and females.
They are characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s own
gender identity and of other gender identities.

Bi-romantic people can be romantically attracted to people of two or more
genders. They are not sexually attracted to the person. Polyamorous means to have open intimate sexual or romantic relationships with more than one person at a time. People who are polyamorous can be heterosexual, lesbian, gay, or bisexual.

Pansexual people may describe their attraction as focusing on personality rather
than gender. For example, people with a pansexual orientation may feel an
attraction to the personality of person. They might equally find a female, male, or
gender-fluid person. In bisexual case, people will have only sexual attraction or sexual behavior towards people of two or more genders.


What is unicorn hunt?

A ‘unicorn woman’ is a young, single, non-crazy, sexually adventurous, drug and
disease-free bisexual female who wants desperately to live with and love a heterosexual couple. Heterosexual couple means relationship between a male and female, opposite genders.

Unicorn hunting begins when a heterosexual couple seeks for a bisexual woman
to join in their sexual relationship or threesome or one person who they can
permanently invite into their relationship. Here unicorn refers to the woman who
agrees to join the threesome as their third partner without any romantic
attachment or expectation of emotional intimacy.


What is threesome?

Threesome is sexual activity that involves three people at the same time. It can be either one woman and two men or one man and two women where one person
plays against two others. It can also be homosexual that involves either three
women or three men.


Major problems in unicorn hunting


In unicorn hunting, woman who is used as unicorn, third partner in their sexual
relationship faces several problems in the society and they are mentally and
physically affected by the temporary relationship.
  • Lack of transparency
  • Dehumanization
  • Unrealistic expectation
  • Fake feelings
  • Affects mental health
  • Desire induction
  • Affects personal freedom
  • Adopting health practice
Any conflict or toxicity should be solved before opening up a relationship to the
third participant. Being unicorn might just be the thing that the male and female
in a couple need, but using the person only for their sexual relationship is
emotion labor which is inappropriate. This puts burden on the person who is used
to fix the sexual relationship of the couple.

Written By - Reshma Madhini

Edited By - Vanshu Verma