What do you think about bisexuals?

I love them (girls).

I think they are confused.

Practice makes perfect. I think the more you are with them the easier it will be for you to get comfy with it. Try to find a woman who is really patient and willing to go slow for you! Bisexuals are cool just like everyone else!

I think they’re people worthy of basic human dignity like everyone else.

People’s sexual preferences are their own business, so I am neutral to a bisexual until I meet them, and interact and learn of who they are. My reaction will be based on many things, none of which apply to their apparent bisexual desires. It will be based on their friendliness, what interests we have in common, and if there is any goals we aspire to that make us synergistically a fit.

I’D BE GLAD TO MAKE A JUDGMENT OF AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE AT ONCE

Greedy bastards.

I kid, I kid.

As for your situation: I think you have a lot of questions to answer before you will know if you are truly bi-sexual or are just experimenting. You may not know right now, nor should you force yourself to figure it out immediately.

So long as you’re not hurting anyone else, enjoy the exploration. The answers will come to you if it’s right for you.

Same thing that I think about people who like chocolate ice cream, or baseball:
Disgusting scum of the earth, which should be purged immediately!

Okay, fine. It’s not my bag of chips, but diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks. If it works for them, great.

@Sarcasm You don’t like chocolate ice cream?

I try not to think any one thing of people identifying as a single sexuality – there are always differences within each group…just as I hate when people say ‘omg, I LOVE gay people, they’re sooooo fun’ I’d hate to say anything I think about bisexuals – long ago I used to identify as a bisexual person, now I identify as queer…I don’t think it’s weird, I don’t think they’re confused or greedy or more promiscuous or anything, specifically, other than less accepted than heterosexuals in some cases…what you liking girls, sexually or emotionally or both, will mean is up to you…

@chyna Eugh, no. I enjoy chocolate in my ice cream (like chocolate chip cookie dough), but I’ve never liked chocolate as the only flavor in something.

They are people and should be treated as such.

And what business is it of ours unless they pursue us sexually? WHO CARES?!

I prefer Tri-Sexuals.

They should make up their mind.

We are great people just like the rest of you!

@BBSDTfamily They have made up their mind, they like both genders, as for what I think about them, they are normal people with their own personal preferences in life just like everyone else and should be treated as such.

I think they are sexually attracted to both sexes. Beyond that I couldn’t say anything about them as a group. I will say though that I am in love with one.
I am mostly straight myself. I don’t know if I can really be called bisexual, but it doesn’t really matter.

I like how some people think that being bisexual means you are either confused, or you can’t make up your mind. If only sexuality was that cut and dried. I am a bisexual, I am not confused, I don’t have to make up my mind, and if you don’t understand it, I could try to explain it to you, but those of you with opinions like those listed by @BBSDTfamily and @NaturalMineralWater, I can see how it would be pretty much pointless to explain the concept of it to you. Your mind is already made up and I would probably be wasting my time.

Sexuality, like most subjects, is not a case of black and white; there are many shades of grey.

How can you get comfortable with it?

Practice makes perfect.

and sending me pictures couldn’t hurt

Personally I can’t answer your main question unless you can refer to a specific person who is bisexual. Some are great people, some are just okay, and some are unpleasant folks who I don’t want to be around.

As to your second question, as @dalepetrie says, “Practice makes perfect.”

If you never get comfortable with the idea, you may not actually be bisexual, just curious.

I don’t give a shit about them

@BBSDTfamily

lol…“make up their mind”...can we get anymore cliched/ignorant here?

@evelyns_pet_zebra I just wonder how far these shades of gray go. Does one shade, for example, include animals? Or does that sound absurd to you? (This is a serious question, I’m really just curios)

Animals and children are not the same as consenting adults. This is probably the 499th time I’ve said this on the Internet. Why are people incapable of seeing the difference?

@DominicX I wasn’t implying that animals and children were the same as consenting adults. I was just wondering what the limits were to the “grayness” of sexuality that evelyn described. What makes one shade of gray acceptable and another not? There was a time when no shades of gray at all were acceptable in society.. I’m just curious how long before our current paradigm shifts once again to allow further shades.

Bisexuals are not “confused”. They are merely not limited in who they are attracted to by what’s in someone’s pants.

@NaturalMineralWater – there’s a difference between a shade of gray and a HUGE FUCKING BRIGHT RED LINE IN THE SAND. That line is “consenting human adults”. Whatever 2 or more consenting adults want to do to/with each other is their business. Beyond that, all shades of any color fall under the “different strokes for different folks” category. If it works for you, then don’t let anyone tell you (or make you feel) that it’s wrong…only you can say what’s right for you. But victimizing someone or something that does not consent or does not have the ability to consent crosses a line. It should be pretty easy to navigate that.

@NaturalMineralWater really, bisexuality is no more a shade of grey than heterosexuality is

Fine with me.

why is it that whenever sexual questions come up, people revert to bestiality and child abuse? Is sex so unnatural that people automatically assume the worst when the subject comes up?

I said consenting adults. Children and non-humans can’t really give consent, but if you want to and can have sex with an animal and it doesn’t kick, bite, or otherwise try to harm you, then do it if you like it and don’t feel that it is wrong. I am not one to judge who has sex with who or what, nor will I impose my morals upon your actions. Just leave the children alone, or you’ll find yourself in a big world of hurt.

I don’t see what the big deal is with being bisexual. The human body is very erotic and sensually pleasing, no matter what bits there are below the belt. Different strokes for different folks, no pun intended.

@evelyns_pet_zebra – I personally am only for having sex with animals if they WILL kick, bite and beat the shit out of the person trying to do it.

I don’t think that there is any “getting used to it”. We are what we are. I knew that I was bisexual early on, and I don’t know why, don’t care to know why, and I will never want to change or have to get used to who I am. Embrace it, discovering your bisexual just doubled your options.

@jamielynn2328 – Admittedly I’m a straight man, so I may be a bit over my head in this discussion, but I would draw a distinction between “getting used to it” and “getting comfortable with it”. I look at my own sexual desire, growing up, it really wasn’t a matter of getting “used” to having sexual urges. But when I actually had sex (meaning with another human being present), the sensation of being touched by another person in a certain way, though it felt great, was also somewhat overwhelming in a way that made it something I had to get “comfortable” with. In other words, the first time is always a bit like, “Oh my GOD, I can’t believe I’m actually doing this, this is not exactly what I’d anticipated,” whereas after you’ve had sex a few times you’re more like, “woo hoo…nookie time” when the opportunity comes up.

I would have to assume just in drawing parallels in regards to human sexual arousal and experience that a person on first having feelings for a member of the same sex, after having believed themselves to be someone attracted solely to members of the opposite sex would have a similar sense of over stimulation at the realities of this new discovery and the practicalities of converting it from theory to practice. This is of course not to mention the social mores, as we still do live in a society where the establishment and many extremely vocal members of our society still attempt to make anything other than heterosexuality seem to be “wrong” or an “abomination”. And wrong though they may be ARE, it still means that many people when discovering that they are homosexual or bi-sexual feel that they are going against the natural grain, because that is the message that has been drilled into them. It as such DOES for many, take some “getting used to” or at least “getting comfortable with” the idea that they do not meet the unwashed masses’ definition of “normal”.

I would say that you should consider yourself lucky for being able to simply say “I am what I am,” as that is how it SHOULD be, but that is not how the powers that be ingrain our cultural mindset. America is basically a country built on the ideal of competition…our entire system of capitalism is essentially defined as success comes to those with the greatest effort and ability…if you want to be the best, you have to work for it. In other words, our entire culture is based on the ideal of being “better” than the next guy. And though this level of competitive spirit can be a very powerful constructive force, it leave the merely mediocre feeling not simply “average”, but in a way “lesser”, and that is not a good feeling. So the mediocre/average, who do compose the largest segment of our society (such is the very definition of “average” after all), they must somehow strive to make themselves feel worthy, and one of the easiest ways to go about this is to find someone THEY are better than (or whom they perceive themselves to be better than). And as such, rather than embracing differences among people, our culture has historically divided people by their differences, so that each group can have another group to whom they feel superior. Such has been the treatment of gays/bisexuals by insecure straight people. As the number of straight, mediocre individuals has always been and will always be an extremely large one, it is a challenge to make the masses give up on their old ways. And as such, this insecurity leads to the imparting within people, often before they are even old enough to understand what “gay” means, the idea that straight is normal.

Most of the gay people I know, whom I accept and treat just like everyone else I know, had a very hard time admitting not just to the public, but even to themselves “what” they are. So though it’s really more up to society to “get used” to it, I would not judge someone too harshly for not immediately embracing a part of herself which society has historically looked down upon, and which she herself may have never even considered as applicable to herself. For even if she were theoretically accepting of homosexuality and bisexuality, as am I, it’s a whole different ballgame if you find that you have to put theory into practice.

I think bisexuals are very selfish…just make up your mind! :P

I’ve actually had this discussion here on fluther several times. I personally don’t get it, but have come to accept that people simply have different tastes.

@whoever I didn’t mean to upset anyone by asking questions. I was just wondering. I can see it’s a very sensitive subject for some of you so I’ll just leave it alone.

Bisexuals have a bigger dating pool to select from.

@chyna which is sometimes deceiving, because a lot less people are likely to date bisexuals thinking that they’re also more likely to stray which isn’t true

@NaturalMineralWater yeah, I only get sensitive when I get compared to pedophiles and such, that is all

“Just make up their mind”? “Confused”? What the fuck is wrong with some of you people?

Bisexual people are under more pressure than gay people. They aren’t straight enough to identify with hetero’s and aren’t gay enough to hang out with the gay people. It really sucks, and if more people just chilled the fuck out and let people do what they do, it wouldn’t have to be that way.

They need to make up their mind? Can you explain why there is a pressing need for them to do this, and how it it affects you?

@thefan1 I was joking! Loosen up! :P
Oh yeah, and finally pick one gender to have sex with lol

As with most things, I like George Carlin’s take on it. “Imagine what an awful curse that must be to be bisexual. Imagine wanting to fuck everyone you meet! You might as well walk around with the PHONE book under your arm.”