Why would people 'choose' to be gay? | Science | The Guardian

Contents:

• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• AM I GAY?
• THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT
• 17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)
• WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

I was kidnapped and forced to have homosexual terurse. I would not nsir myself beg a homosexual due to the fact that I am only largely attracted to women.

Straight men who have engaged suatnal homosexualy (such as prison or the ary), what's your story?

Can HOCD make you actually believe you are gay?

AM I GAY?

One thg that sr me bee seems different than what I read about HOCD is that people talk about beg aaid they uld be gay or uld turn gay, but n HOCD make you thk youre ACTUALLY gay? Bee I often feel that I actually am gay.

THE FACT NO ONE LIK TO ADM: MANY GAY MEN ULD JT HAVE EASILY BEEN STRAIGHT

And I hate the ia of beg gay and have never done anythg gay wh anyone and, like I said, n relate to a lot of other symptoms of HOCD.

But I'm sred that sce I thk I actually thk I'm gay, I maybe I really am. [rant] I don’t want to be gay. I hate myself for beg gay I’m not a very homophobic area but my fay would be disappoted.

I've always thought was wrong but I am gay i knew I always felt that way but I'm homophobic on the outsi and try to reprs beg gay through .

17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)

So my cursy got the bt of me and I started lookg up gay porn. So I'm totally a closet bi/gay. TL;DR - I thought I was straight, got cur, started chattg wh a guy 3 hours away, met up, did everythg together, talked everyday sce we met, velopg feelgs for each other, need to take slow, not sure how but termed to figure out, never been happier, both closet bi/gay.

I myself am part of the lgbtq+ muny, I'm a transgenr woman and am gay. Girls that bullied me elementary and middle school now joke about wantg a gay bt iend. I spent years beg bullied, and here are the girls I grew up wh mentg 'omg so gay I love ' on pictur wh me and my boyiend.

Like you might well be bisexual or gay. If the only gay timacy I ever had was a group like this, or what you experienced, I uld fortably say I was pretty straight. Whout some sort of bond gay sex, or any sex, n be pretty mechanil.

WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

He als mostly wh issu the gay muny. Gay. Some of them probably are a ltle bisexual, but I know two particular who seem 100% straight every jt enjoy the nvenience of gay sex sometim.

When he download a gay app though, sudnly there were 20 dus a day throwg themselv at him and beggg him to pick them. So when you are sayg "foc on the more submissive aspects of " and referencg the prev post where someone suggted this was more about beg submissive than about beg gay, n you elaborate on that?

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay.