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Oh! You are a Bisexual?? Wow!! Great that means you must be getting the best of both worlds.
Bisexuality is often misunderstood as a curtain to do the homosexual stuff while portraying a heterosexual image in front of the society. But being bisexual is not just confined to the fulfillment ofphysical desires or needs. There is a lot more to it…
With the prevalent idea of fancying on the best of both worlds there is a lot of mental pressure that goes unnoticed. Just as it is recognized to be present in both the prominent domains of sexuality; a bisexual person also envisages the series of questions and presumptions that often tags 
them as the people with no strong choices. Bisexuals are too frequently labeled as frauds or experimentalists, incapable ofcommitting to one sole party.
“Bisexuals are not trustworthy or at least they are not a safe option to make emotional investments. This ubiquitous dialogue I often get to hear from the people of LGBTQ+ community”, says Chirag, a Bhopal based bisexual Hotelier. Being a bisexual always has your credibility at question.
Bisexuality is a widely misunderstood phenomena majorly thought to work on the concept of 50/50 say “Half Gay” and “Half Straight”. On the contrary it is certainly the concept of liking both ‘Same and Different’. With the conditional acceptance in the society; bisexuals are often questioned about making a choice.
Robyn Ochs, an American bisexual activist, and professional speaker once said, “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.”
One of the most persistent myths about bisexuality is the idea that it just doesn’t exist. When people say that they are bisexual they are misunderstood to be in a phase or just hiding that they’re actually gay.
Dwelling in the world of physical desires bisexuals are often found in the emotional splits. As they say “Too straight for gays, and too gay for straights”- for a bisexual person it is tough to find something 
for their romantic or emotional being.
Identifying oneself as a bisexual is not an easy task. With lots of denial, it’s tough to be in space which lies in the middle of nowhere. And on top of that, finding a partner is another task that a bisexual person has to go through. Though, getting in a relationship or picking up on a gender doesn’t mean that a person is not ‘bi enough’.
“The split between the two worlds of making choices often leads to a lot of apprehension”- says Dyutima Sharma, a psychotherapist. As society’s understanding of sex and gender progresses, leaving little room for binaries, ‘bi’ sexuality becomes increasingly complex. Upon discussing the idea of their sexuality the bisexuals are the ones that bear it the most. With partial affirmation a bisexual guy or girl often find themselves abandoned as dealing with the preconceived notions and making choices is really tiring and leads to anxiety.
Bisexuality is wrongfully made more a matter of superstition as the society is unable to grasp the potential of amorous or erotic interaction with not just one of the two sexes. Bisexuality is real. Unlike gays or lesbians this makes most of the bisexuals to remain closeted as they don’t find the need to come out to everyone.
Bisexuality doesn’t define an incapability of choosing between men and women it’s just another trait of law of attraction where one can wish to be with both. But that not at all means that satiating the physical desires or exploring both sexually is the only motive of being a bisexual. This category of people is as equal as any other sexuality and is not a phase to get over with.
Tagging or labels can do harm but they also set free. Bisexuality needs to be taken more seriously in our local spaces as being a bisexual does not mean having both cake and ice cream. Making choices is always strenuous and in doing so finding oneself abided by the norms or tags can make it worse. So this Pride Month in our already comparatively progressive realms let the bisexuality be taken as seriously as any other letter in the line-up that constitutes the LGBTQ+ umbrella.
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