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Yeah my dad is making me go to a doctor to see if he can make me strate. Do you think it will work. I figure it could, because well strate people turn gay...so why wouldnt it work both ways, ya know?

I dont think he would do that, and yeah you can turn gay or strate. You think I was always gay...um actualy you would have no clue sweatdrop sorry. Well I wasnt always gay.

Do you mean you were really attracted to the opposite sex at one point? Or did you simply not identify as being gay? There's a big difference.

there is literal reaserch done on this subject, i have to look in my book, but from what I remember, it is a genetic thing, ergo, it is something that is always with you even if you think you are supposed to like girls and you check them out for that reason alone, then it still means you are. i still check out some girls, but i wan't that interested in guys when i was younger, it is a gradual realization, not an overnight thing.

Brain chemistry isn't something that can't be changed permanently thorough conventional means. Usually it involves trauma or other extreme and undue stress to the nervous system, which is one of the basic reasonings behind electrical shock therapy. Studies have shown physical differences in comparing homosexuals with heterosexuals (bisexuals don't seem to recieve much attention), particularly in specific areas of the brain, however biochemical makeup has not, to the best of my knowledge, been tested. Many ideas have been proposed (including varying hormonal imbalances, trauma before/during/after birth, etc.), but many of them aren't viable for testing. ...As in, not many people would allow or want to subject human fetuses and infants to experimentation.

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Electric shock therapy is simple and terribly crude. Professional practitioners (ironic word choice) of it of different sexual orientations and the variable gender identities as being a disorder that can be corrected by associating the "undesirable" idea (same-sex attraction, transgenderism, etc.) with pain by shocking them when they show signs of a mental and/or sexual response to images. It's thought to "reset" or "reprogram" the brain to a specific mode of thinking, though there is no evidence whatsoever that it actually works.

You've got two choices: Go and subject yourself to whatever it is they're going to do to you, or try to explain to your father that it can't be changed.

People don't "turn gay/straight". You say you have, though, so maybe I'm just stupid and missing something.

Electro-shock therapy should never be considered. stare

Well, my dad is also homophobic, but not to an extent where he takes me to a psychologist to turn me straight.

So basically I just act straight around my parents, and then if I have affiliations with those of the same sex, I keep it where my parents won't find out, and if the said same sex individual wants to come over, I make note to tell them my parents are homophobes and not to 'act gay' around them.

The reason why I say parents instead of just your father is because if your mom doesn't mind, but sees you acting gay, she might(and probably will) tell you father, or unexpectantly bring it up in conversation.

Maybe you're bi, and confused yourself to think you're gay when you realised you were attracted to guys? Or it could just be that gradual realisation someone was talking about. You probly liked girls 'cause it was the norm.