Stright to gay

However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a complete absence of homosexual indicators. But they managed to change those feelings, he added. The study reopens the debate over "reparative therapy," or treatment to change sexual preference.

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay. How do I stop being gay?

Under the right circumstances, many things can cause sexual arousal in a person. The fact of the matter is that people react sexually to sexual things. I am not just talking about people with OCD here, but about people in general. I cannot count the number of times that patients have related to me that they have experienced sexual feelings and feelings of stimulation when encountering things they felt were taboo or forbidden.

From the Experts

Spitzer says he spoke to men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from gay to straight, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called good heterosexual functioning — a sustained, loving heterosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a point scale.

He's My Lover

Where heteronormativity reigns, one might expect to see that among people who avoid labeling themselves straight, bisexuality would be common, and research tends to support that assertion Gates, ; Bailey et al. But here things get murky. As Yoshino pointed out, and as others have reiterated Eliason, ; Bowes-Catton, , monosexuals tend to feel threatened by the existence of bisexuals, and this has led to a virtual erasure of the bisexual label.