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Can straight people turn gay

Long-suffering Spectator readers earn a seasonal crack from yet another Remoaner diatribe from me. My last on this page, making the outrageous suggestion that the populace may sometimes be wrong, is now being brandished by online Leaver-readers of my Times column as proof that I am in fact a fascist; so there isn’t anywhere much to go from there.

Instead, I shift to sex. There is little age left for me to write about sex as the thoughts of a septuagenarian on this subject (I shift 70 this year) may soon come across only a shudder. But I possess a theory which I have the audacity to reflect important.

What follows is not written here for the first time, and much of it is neither original nor new; but on very few subjects have I ever been more sure I’m right, or more sure that future generations will see so, and wonder that it stared us in the face yet was not recognized. My firm doctrine is that in trying to categorise sex, sexuality and — yes — even gender, the late 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries have taken the medical and social sciences down a massive blind alley. No such categories exist. And it has been particularly sad in 2018 to notice the ‘tran

When I tell a straight girl that I am queer , the usual response is "men can do a b

  • Gender and Relationships

    Can a gay man be attracted to a specific girl, but not women in general, and sti

    by Tigercub6848 years ago

    Can a gay guy be attracted to a specific young woman, but not women in general, and still be queer, not bi?As a writer, i'm wondering if it's doable for a male lover or straight traits to be attracted to a person of the gender that opposes their typical sexuality? Prefer, a gay person to be in love with a...

  • Gender and Relationships

    Did you make the conclusion to come out? Or, did someone else out you?

    by Brian13 years ago

    Did you make the decision to approach out? Or, did someone else out you?There are a lot of questions from straight people wanting to realize if being same-sex attracted is a preference. Nobody knows the true answer to that, but we do know that we eventually acquire to come out and say who we are. So, did you choose to come out...

  • Religion and Philosophy

    Gay people in my family. Inherited? Choice? Victim of circumstances?

    by WaffleCheese15 years ago

    I realize this is a hot topic, but there are some people in my family (none blood related [that I know of]) That are g

    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 drastic and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 analyze published in the Journal of Sex Research set up that among a collective of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In order to include doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer want not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in new children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, found that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden hostile or perverse sexual thoughts.

    Although doubts about one’s have sexual identity might come across pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious develop is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su

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