How do you know if your bisexual?

Many people across the world have questioned their sexuality at one point or another. With nothing to compare your experience to, finding the right label can be frustrating and tiresome. For some, it can take years. The most commonly identified with sexualities are heterosexual (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexual (attraction to the same sex), asexual (no sexual attraction), and bisexual (attraction to both sexes). It is essential while questioning to make the distinction between sexual attraction and romantic attraction. Sexuality is based around who you would want to have intimate relations with. Orientation focuses on sexuality, but also who you would just feel comfortable dating. You can be asexual and biromantic, for example. You wouldn't feel sexual attraction to anyone but could see yourself dating someone of any gender. Knowing if you're bisexual can be tricky, but here are some questions to help. Would you feel comfortable kissing or participating in intimate behavior with someone of the same gender? What about a different gender? If you answered yes to both, you might be bisexual. If you answered no to one, you might be heterosexual or homosexual. If you said no to both, you might be asexual. Ask yourself the same questions, but this time with dating, or holding hands. Perhaps getting married? This will help you determine romantic attraction.

You have an attraction to men and women and want to act upon it. It is something you do more than once and you would or are pursuing a relationship with men or women. It is completely natural and more common than it appears. There are all sorts of support groups and people to talk to including us here at 7 cups. We are here to talk about challenges, struggles or we are here to just listen and support. The best I can say is that for someone to answer this question they have to do a lot of reflection and might have to ask tough questions of themselves. But we are here to help.

It's okay to be confused. There is no absolute method of knowing. It's more about what feels right... If you feel like you're sexually attracted to two or more genders, you could be bisexual. You don't have to put a label on what you feel yet, take some time to reflect and think about it. You might be bisexual if you always felt attracted to the same gender the same way you felt attracted to the opposite. Or if you feel like the label "straight" doesn't describe you. Or if you have fantasised about/ imagined sexual encounters with both genders (or more than two genders). Regardless of what you identify as, you are valid :)

Bisexual means being attracted to more than one gender. If that's how you're feeling, you might be bisexual, and that's totally cool! The important thing to remember is that there's nothing wrong with any sexual orientation. For some people, their sexual orientation might stay the same throughout their life.No matter what, there’s nothing wrong with changing the labels you use to describe your own sexual orientation during your lifetime. Talking with someone you trust, someone who’s going through the same thing as you, or has gone through it in the past, can really help you in figuring out how you identify.

Only you can answer that. But if you have an attraction to males and females then you could be bisexual. You could even prefer one over the other and still be bisexual. You can be married and be bisexual. If you feel attracted to males and females you may want to evaluate yourself and try to learn more about yourself. You may want to be called bi-curious at first to try to find where you fix. But know matter what be true to yourself. Asking questions is normal and love is love. Remember there is nothing wrong with being bisexual.

Thank's for reaching out to the community for answers! I wish you the best of luck in your personal journey. As a bisexual myself, I know its a difficult question. Questioning your sexuality is often scary, just know that you have a community (us!) prepared to listen to you every step of the way! Bisexuality is, definitively, simply being attracted to two or more genders. That may be a complex question definition to place yourself into. In my own personal experience, I asked myself whether I would be happy (independently of societal influence) in a sexual relationship with a person of my own gender identity or any other. Spend some time reading bisexual literature ('The Bisexual Guide to the Universe' by Nicole Kristal and Mike Szymanski helped me out a lot) and listening to youtube videos about other people's experience. 7 Cups was a great start! I also want to note that there are many micro-labels (bisexual vs biromantic) and similar identities (pansexual vs bisexual). Don't feel afraid to mess around and figure out which best fits you! There's no shame in learning more about yourself as you develop. Good luck! If you (or anyone reading) has any questions, feel free to message me and I'd love to help however possible.

I, a bisexual know how this feels. Finding out if you are bisexual can be sometimes tough. Some people find out about being bisexual by falling in love with a person the same gender as them. Some find out by the want to kiss a person the same gender as them. it can be hard to know, as sometimes neither of these happen and you simply don't feel heterosexual. But, just remember, you know yourself best. If you believe you may be bisexual, then you may just be. I am not one to give advice, but it is also possible that you have always deep down knew or predicted that you weren't completely straight.

for me, it was a pretty long process of slowly realizing that my feelings for girls were not always platonic. what really helped was when one of my friends came out and i was able to basically just discuss it with her, and i did a lot of research about various queer identities. i think, at the end of the day it's just looking up stuff and thinking about your feelings and figuring out stuff for yourself. questioning is the first step, and then you just have to give it thought, talking to people who identify as bisexual can definitely help

Begin by accepting that attraction is very fluid. There is no litmus test for bisexuality. The most general definition is that if you are sexually attracted to two genders (since most people think of binaries, we'll go with men and women) you may fit that sexual identity. It is up to you if you want to further explore and act on that identity through sexual activity or romantic attraction. Not everyone who identifies as bisexual has had a sexual encounter of the same-sex, but their attraction is still valid and does not erase then sexual identity. The best thing about fluidity is that if you actually find in time that you recognize attractiveness in a gender, but are not sexually attracted to them, no harm done. You just now have more experiences that inform you of who you are.