Legislation for gay marriage is approved in the UK House of Commons!

[DeistPaladin]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you can easily enough resist your attraction to other men. But if you chose to be with another man, then wouldn't you say that would be a lifestyle choice for you instead?

You don't quite understand me correctly but I'll try to be as clear and concise as I can.

Bisexuality is, from my experience, often misunderstood by both gays and straights. It is not having two sex drives working at once. I have one sex drive and gender is negotiable. All things equal, I prefer females. Most bisexuals have a preference. Even the men I find "hot" are more the slender rather than the buff.

So perhaps you can see that it's not quite accurate to talk of "my attraction to men". It's more accurate to say I have a desire for sexual gratification, as everyone who is not asexual does, and I appreciate the potential beauty and sex appeal of both genders.

This is why it's not a contradiction that I classify my sexuality as "monogamous bisexual". I tend to only have one partner at a time but were something, God forbid so to speak, to happen to my wife, my next partner might be of either gender. Smart betting money would say female but who knows.

I still believe that they are a mental disorder that can be treated...

How fortunate for me that modern psychology relies of qualified and peer-reviewed opinions and not religious woo that forms yours.

You are welcome to your opinions that same gender affections are a mental illness but this is not an opinion shared by those who know what they're talking about.

By the way, WERE I to look at sexual orientation with the same prejudice you do (I don't but I'm making a shoe-on-the-other-foot point), I would say YOU and those who are either gay or straight have a mental illness. Specifically, I would call it a sort of partial color-blindness of sexuality. You poor thing! You can only appreciate the beauty of one gender. It's like people who can only see shades of red or shades of green. And how this must inhibit your life, since it restricts your choice of partner. How much happier I've decided for you that you might be if only. Perhaps if we could treat you like a second class citizen until we make you loathe yourself enough that you seek some kind of quackery treatment to "cure" you.

...or maybe we could live and let live, allowing each to pursue happiness as we choose at harm to no one else, and let professional psychologists decide what constitutes a mental illness.