Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study

Re:Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study by 12throwaway345 on Friday January 24, 2014 @09:08PM (#7119513)

Using a throwaway as I am not out yet and If I am out, I would be disowned at best or killed at worst. Sexuality is fluid. That is 100% true. Though I'd never been attracted to women, sexually, I had fooled with a friend in Uni, who is bi. He says that he started liking guys only after he was 20. He never thought about having sex with guys before and asked why he wanted to have now, he said initially he was curious and now he likes it after trying for the first time.

The concept of sexuality being fluid can be a touchy topic to gay activists and also some gay people is because of the religious people. If everyone starts to think that sexuality can be changed, the bigots and crazy religious people will put more effort into the conversion therapy. In the current state of the world, that will do more harm than good.

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Re:Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study by wwweston on Friday January 24, 2014 @11:22PM (#7119840)

I suspect there are degrees of fluidity: that some people have a flexible orientation largely driven by choice and experience (I know at least one person who reports this is how it is for her), but for others, orientation is largely fixed and even significant conditioning efforts don't make much of a difference.

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Re:Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study by emmelaich on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:39AM (#7120453)

> The concept of sexuality being fluid can be a touchy topic ...

I sometime wonder if sexuality is fixed and if a gene is found for it (and hence a "cure" is available) that the bigots and crazies would be even more vocal.

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