Straight turns gay
Long-suffering Spectator readers earn a seasonal interval 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 being 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 go from there.
Instead, I rotate to sex. There is little day left for me to write about sex as the thoughts of a septuagenarian on this subject (I twist 70 this year) may soon gather only a shudder. But I contain a theory which I have the audacity to ponder important.
What follows is not written here for the first time, and much of it is neither original nor new; but on very few 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 known. My firm creed 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 alley. No such categories exist. And it has been particularly sad in 2018 to view 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 severe and unrelenting doubt. It can lead to you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A 1998 study published in the Journal of Sex Investigate found that among a community of 171 college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. 1998). In order to own doubts about one’s sexual persona, 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 well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., 1989, found that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s own 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 thought that they might be of a different sexual orientation than they formerly believed. If the su
So he turned "gay" just for the link ups. Now that guy is scoring 4 or 5 men per week with many repeats. And they would always compliment him on how fine 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 understand any straight men turning gay just for hang ups?