Turned gay
by Fred Penzel, PhD
This article was initially published in the Winter 2007 edition of the OCD Newsletter.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing grave and unrelenting disbelieve. It can result in you to disbelieve even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 explore published in the Journal of Sex Research found that among a community of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In request to have doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as skillfully. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, set up that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s have sexual identity might seem pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious form is where a sufferer experiences the mind that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su
Can a straight person become gay?
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Yes it happened twice: once in Wales and now in France
We often catch uneducated and ill-informed religious people sprouting the theory direct people can be turned gay. And that’s why they tell us it’s best to preserve homosexuals in the closet, out of our schools and that diversity/anti-bullying programs should never be taught in schools as they promote the ‘hoooomosexual lifestyle’. The Rev Fred Nile called these programs brain-washing.
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Over the years, religious conservatives created fear-mongering campaigns with titles such as ‘Save our Children’ or ‘Protect our Children from Homosexual Recruitment’ believing that all it takes to twist a straight person over to the dark side is a gay guy or lesbian……and this occurs supposedly through sexual abuse or seduction. Whist some might have one or several lgbtq+ experiences, it never actually flicks the switch.
God knows, for four decades, Christian gay conversion therapy organisations have told endless stories of the opposite; people who say they were once queer but are now straight. The difficulty with those
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So he turned "gay" just for the hook ups. Now that guy is scoring 4 or 5 men per week with many repeats. And they would always compliment him on how excellent he was which was something that never happened before when he managed to hook up with women or had a girlfriend.
What do you think? Do you know any direct men turning gay just for hook ups?