Straight turns gay
Long-suffering Spectator readers deserve a seasonal break 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 organism 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 leave from there.
Instead, I shift to sex. There is little time left for me to write about sex as the thoughts of a septuagenarian on this subject (I twist 70 this year) may soon meet only a shudder. But I possess a theory which I have the audacity to think important.
What follows is not written here for the first time, and much of it is neither original nor new; but on very several 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 acknowledged. My firm belief 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 footpath. No such categories be. And it has been particularly sad in 2018 to see the ‘tran
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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 serious and unrelenting disbelieve. It can result in you to question even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 research published in the Journal of Sex Research found that among a community of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In direct to have doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer need not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual experience at all. I have observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as successfully. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, set up that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s hold sexual identity might seem pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most obvious form is where a sufferer experiences the mind that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su
So he turned "gay" just for the hook ups. Now that guy is scoring 4 or 5 men per week with many repeats. And they would always compliment him on how nice he was which was something that never happened before when he managed to hook up with women or had a girlfriend.
What do you think? Do you know any direct men turning gay just for hook ups?