Aswad
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ORIGINAL: HutchGarahl You can't train someone to be gay. Good grief. Homosexuality, be it completely gay or bisexual, is something your born as. You can't wake up one day and say.."Ok, i'm gay' and be that. Actually, unpopular as what I'm about to say might be, this simply isn't the case. Sexual and emotional reconditioning is possible from any orientation to any other orientation, provided the subject is willing and the person performing the reconditioning has the necessary qualifications and trust relationship. I'm all for LGBT (heck, I'm probably bi myself), and think it's wrong to even suggest that someone should undergo reconditioning. But I'm also all for personal freedom, and if someone wants to change the physical and/or emotional aspect of their orientation, then that's their choice. I seriously don't get why people go all medieval on the few pdocs that have this kind of expertise and trustworthiness, provided they don't try to push it on anyone. Aren't options all good? I do get why some would be incredulous, though. While I'd personally see it as a cop-out if a non-straight person became straight to lower tensions with an ass-backwards family or religious community, I don't see that I have any business with how they choose to make their tradeoffs. Similarly, if a straight person is madly in love with a person in a poly- or endogamous relationship where the group only accepts bi members, I don't see what's wrong with reconditioning to bi, if that'll make this person happy. YMMV. Usual disclaimers apply. Flames directed at nearest gravitational singularity.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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