[LiteraryLark]

I am pansexual. I love people, men and women alike in every shape and size. I am also bipolar. I notice that my sexual preferences will lean to one gender or the other every couple years.

Pre-high school, I favored boys.
High school--I fluctuated up and down dating both boys and girls.
My first year in college, I was neutral and liked them both evenly
Now it's my second year in college and I'm leaning towards boys and now I'm fixated on trying to find a boyfriend, specifically to fulfill fantasies I have involving men. I rarely fantasize about women, but I do love women, but now I'm focused on men.

What's up with that? I'm not questioning my sexuality at all: I know I'm pansexual and I know I love both men and women, but why is it that I have swings of wanting only men or swings of wanting only women? Does this have anything to do with me being bipolar?

[Pandoren]

I think in order to answer that question, one might have to have a better understanding of how sexuality works! What causes attraction to men? What causes attraction to women? Is it a mental change? A hormonal change? A chemical change? Something in your circumstances at the time that altered your ability to perceive one or the other? I don't know. I do wonder though that if your sexuality changed because of you being bipolar, it would fluctuate much more frequently than it has.

It could just be that that is how your sexuality is. Not all bi/pan people are attracted to men and women equally throughout their lives- from what I hear, most people do have a bias towards one or the other and can change like you have.