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Originally Posted by greywolf90  im straight but i am for gay marriage. i've read the arguments about how being gay is not a choice. i can agree that if they have no more choice in who they're attracted to then a straight person does. but the arguments seemed to only apply to those who had always been gay (at least since puberty or sooner); i was wondering about those who change orientations later in life. like if a straight person became gay, or a gay person became straight (and of course this includes bi, pan, etc.) |
I will try to explain my views on your question. Firstly I don't think any of those people actually 'changed' their sexuality. A man many may know named Alfred Kinsey created a scale. Now I'm not here to argue about Kinsey and his research, I'm only using his scale(Which isn't entirely accurate seeing as how it completely excludes asexuality).
A scale from 0-6, 0 being entirely heterosexual, 6 being entirely homosexual, and 3 being bisexual.
These people who you think may 'change' their sexuality may have simply fallen more into the 2 and 4 categories. Bisexual people who are attracted to either the opposite or same sex more than the other. Were I a 2 raised in todays society I would most likely identify myself as straight and completely ignore any attraction I had to the same sex. People who do this may later in life decide to explore their own sexuality, or fall for someone of the same/opposite sex where they had previously only dated the other. Seemingly 'changing' their sexual orientation.
As I said the scale itself is flawed because it doesn't acknowledge Asexuality, but I think it served its purpose in communicating the idea. That idea being that sexuality isn't so black and white, that each person has their own and one gay/straight man's sexuality isn't identical to every other gay/straight man's.