Is bisexuality complicated?

Bisexuality is no more complicated than any other sexuality. And yet, many monosexual people (straight, gay, and lesbian) find bisexuality confusing. The root cause of this is that straight, gay, and lesbian perspective divides humanity into a sexuality binary, where everyone is attracted to one sex but not the other. It creates easy category distinctions. For example, a straight man can feel safe and secure that he is heterosexual because his attractions to women set him safely apart from gay men. Similarly, a lesbian can derive clarity around her own sexuality based upon her relationships with other women.

Bisexual people blow this neat binary apart. Whereas straight and gay/lesbian sexuality is defined by a boundary between two sexes, bisexuality transcends any such boundary, and can sometimes be incomprehensible to people who are not bi. That doesn’t make bisexuality complicated. It just makes bisexuality different.