Can a gay person become straight

Secondly, in my own research, I found it was possible for the self-identified gay youth to have experienced sexual attractions to women before they identified as gay. Or are some gay and lesbian people really closeted bisexuals? May 9 -- Can gay men and women become heterosexual?

Posted May 17, As a result of these meetings, as well as my own research, I have found that one of the things that helps parents come to terms with their children's sexual orientation is the idea that being gay or lesbian is innate. However, we live in a society in which many people including self-identifying gays and lesbians don't quite believe in bisexuality.

There is good reason to believe that for many women, feelings of sexual attraction are less fixed and more flexible than originally thought. If it is really OK, we should be as accepting of a person who has a relationship with a man and then a woman as we would of someone who usually eats vanilla ice cream and then decides to start eating pistachio.

Furthermore, Lisa Diamond, a researcher from the University of Utah followed a sample of one hundred lesbians over a period of ten years to determine whether there were any changes in their sexual feelings over time. There is evidence that male sexual attractions and behaviors can also be fluid.

She found that women who identified as lesbians could find themselves periodically attracted to and sexually active with men, then women, then men again. Finally, some progressive adolescents and young adults with same-sex attractions do not label themselves or identify as gay because they refuse to center their identities on their current sexual feelings and behavior--which they expect will change depending on who their partners are.

A safe space for GSRM (Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minority) folk to discuss their lives, issues, interests, and passions. So this research could explain how Anne Heche, after being in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, could then go on to to marry a man.

In fact, only one third of the women who initially identified as lesbians at the start of the research project reported exclusive sexual attractions and behavior toward women over the course of the study. A long time ago, Kinsey told us that bisexuality is much more prevalent than we think.

Can some gay men

Some women could be having relationships with members of both sexes at the same time. Maybe Anne Heche and some of the respondents in my study are being pressured to "pick one sex, dammit, and stick with it! Either some gay men and lesbians, following reparative therapy, actually change their predominantly homosexual orientation to a predominantly heterosexual orientation or some gay men and women construct elaborate self-deceptive narratives (or even lie) in which they claim to have changed their sexual orientation, or both.

In comparison, men became sexually aroused only by depictions that that corresponded with their sexual orientations. If we truly believe that it is acceptable to have sexual and romantic relationships with the same sex, then it shouldn't matter whether or not sexual orientation is changeable.

Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the. First of all, men in other cultures, including non-Western societies and those of ancient Greece, have been known to participate in a transitory period of ritualistic homosexuality at some point during their lives.

Sex researchers have examined the factors related to women and men's sexual arousal and have found that women of all sexual orientations were more likely than heterosexual and gay men to become sexually stimulated in response to erotic images of both women and men, in heterosexual and homosexual coitus.

I am happy this idea comforts parents, but is it true? So, what does this all mean?

Can Homosexuals Change Their

A controversial new study says yes — if they really want to. For example, not too long ago, the Sambia, an indigenous tribe in New Guinea believed a boy could not reach manhood unless he fellated an older man and ingested his semen. Thirdly, I invite readers to go to Craigslist.

LGBT is still a popular term used to discuss gender and sexual minorities, but all GSRM are welcome beyond lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who consent to participate in a safe space. This is how they're born and that's that!. Or that we are ready to believe that the sexy Samantha character in Sex in the City could take a break from men and engage in a complicated steamy affair with a lesbian played by Sonia Braga OK, who wouldn't?