Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed?
The origins of sexuality, whether bisexual, homosexual, or heterosexual, are still not yet fully known. Sexual orientation is complex, but what is known indicates that sexuality is not chosen, nor can it be changed. The supposed success rate of conversation therapy really indicates the ability for individuals to suppress their sexual desires, not to change them. I suspect that our sexual orientations are developed from both biological and social sources. After all, same-sex sexuality, relationships, and desires have always existed, just like those that are different-sex, but gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual sexual identities have not. (In Ancient Greece, men who had sex with men did not identify as gay, nor bisexual or straight – it is only in the twentieth century that we began to take on a social sexual identity in the Western world, and now more globally.
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