As I'm reading this thread, I'm struck by a couple of on going things:
- First are the on-going attempts to characterize "most" bisexual men as "this, that or the other thing" (sometimes with substantiated claims of statistics)
- Then there is the on-going confusion surrounding the concepts of monogamy and sexuality.
As I think I'm stated before I've personally experienced the attempts of both the homosexual and heterosexual communities to pigeonhole those who have sexual attraction to both men and women.
Regardless of whether those attempts came from homosexuals or heterosexuals, they were just wrong, insensitive, offensive, bigoted, uneducated nonsense. None of them were any more valid than attempts to characterize or stereotype any other sexual identification. No person, or group of people has the right to define, or characterize someone else's sexuality for them.
By the same token, I cannot force anyone to believe the things that I do, or see the world through my eyes, but I cannot remain silent when I see behavior that wouldn't be tolerated by the person taking whatever action if the tables were turned.
How many gay men do you know who would be offended by a statement like, "gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry, they don't form long term relationships, it's all just a series of hookups and anonymous sex." I know that's wrong, I hope everyone reading this knows that it's wrong. But I've actually heard things like that said when the topic of same sex marriage was being discussed. Sometimes it was even said by people who identified as gay. The point is that no one has the right to project that onto others. NO ONE. It may be true for some, but certainly not all, or even most. The best anyone can do is speak for themselves.
Actually, I told a small white, there are actually two points in the analogy to same sex marriage. The second is that there is absolutely zero connection between sexuality and longevity of relationships. I know just as many fully heterosexual men who just cannot keep it in their pants as I do fully homosexual men who have the same issue. You can extend that into all the other shade of sexuality that you want to. The plane fact of the matter is that there are just some men who aren't good at monogamy. That's not linked to who they like to have sex with. It's just not part of their make-up to have a single sex partner.
Some of those men have solid, meaningful relationships with other people (both men and women), but all of those relationships are examples of places where the participants have separated sexuality, monogamy and the longevity of their relationship. The problems happen when people cannot make that separation, when those things collide with the ideals of one or both people, or when there is a lack of honesty about one or more the topics (this one often collides with the ideals one mentioned before.)
Again, there isn't an right answer, or a right way of being. There is just the way that we are. No one likes being hurt when a relationship ends. I've had my heart broken a couple of times (both of them by men who identified as gay.) But making up tabloid like stories about those situations doesn't really help anyone, until we all start to learn from our own conditions and our own situations.