'I was beaten up by Turkish police and jailed bee I 'looked gay'' - World News - Mirror Onle

suddenly gay

A new poll says 5.6 percent of Amerins intify as gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

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'I WAS BEATEN UP BY TURKISH POLICE AND JAILED BEE I 'LOOKED GAY''

* suddenly gay *

Scientists may have fally solved the puzzle of what mak a person gay, and how is passed om parents to their children.A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his mother.The heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali. Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic lk.Long thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed. In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study."There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws," Rice not.Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * suddenly gay *

But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn."The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal," Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay. Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual offsprg.Though scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between."Most mastream blogists have shied away om studyg bee of the social stigma," he says. Well there are many exampl of homosexualy nature, 's very mon." Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he says.Rice's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work."We've found a story that looks really good," he says.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Miguel Alvaro was solo holidayg Istanbul last month when he went out to meet a iend for lunch and beme lost, so asked policemen for directns before sudnly he was taedMiguel told Portugue outlet P3 that one of the officers orred him to be arrted immediatelyA Portugue man claims he was arrted Turkey and kept a squalid prison for nearly three weeks bee he "looked gay". ” Some people’s doubts are further plited by havg such experienc as hearg other people talkg or lookg their directn and thkg that the people mt be analyzg their behavr or appearance and talkg about them – discsg how they mt be gay (or straight).

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

I have sometim wonred if those who experience the most distrs om such thoughts as the do so bee they were raised wh more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attus to beg wh, or if is simply bee one’s sexualy n be such a basic doubt. The flip si of this is when they look at thgs havg to do wh sex of an oppose orientatn and then feel aroed some way, which they then nclu to mean that they liked , which means that they are gay (or straight). But Diamond and other rearchers have piled numero se studi of gay men who spent years feelg (and actg) fully and fortably homosexual, only then to fall unexpectedly love wh a heterosexual woman.

A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

WHY IS GAY SUDNLY BEG OK?

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.

”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe.

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SHARE THIS IA,” SAID WRER TOM TAYLOR. “SUPERMAN’S SYMBOL HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR HOPE, FOR TTH AND FOR JTICE. TODAY, THAT SYMBOL REPRENTS SOMETHG MORE. TODAY, MORE PEOPLE N SEE THEMSELV THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERHERO ICS.”JT LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM, JON KENT HAS FALLEN FOR A REPORTER. AFTER IALLY STRIKG UP A IENDSHIP WH REPORTER JAY NAKAMURA, HE AND JON BEE ROMANTILLY VOLVED THE PAG OF SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #5 OM WRER TOM TAYLOR (DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL) AND ARTIST JOHN TIMMS (HARLEY QUINN). FOLLOWG A SCENE WHERE SUPERMAN MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY BURNS OUT OM TRYG TO SAVE EVERYONE THAT HE N, JAY IS THERE TO RE FOR THE MAN OF STEEL. THERE’S REALLY NOTHG “BOLD” ABOUT THIS. IT’S PURELY ANOTHER ACT OF THE FAIAR, CYNIL PANRG THAT DC HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEGUN TO BEE KNOWN FOR, WHICH SHOULD BE OBV ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPED TODAY, WHICH JT HAPPENS TO BE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN READG BLEEDG FOOL FOR THE LAST UPLE OF MONTHS. DC QUEERG SUPERMAN NEXT? WHY ALL DC COMICS SUPERHERO ARE GAY WRER TOM TAYLOR TOLD IGN THAT HE’S HAD QUEER CHARACTERS AND STORYL REJECTED BY THE ICS DTRY OVER THE YEARS, SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO WRE A NEW ISSUE OF “SUPERMAN,” HE CID TO MAKE THE MAN OF STEEL A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “I KNEW REPLACG CLARK WH ANOTHER STRAIGHT WHE SAVR ULD BE A REAL OPPORTUNY MISSED,” TAYLOR SAID. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO. TODAY, SUPERMAN, THE STRONGT SUPERHERO ON THE PLA, IS G OUT.” WHAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS. HIS BIG IA WAS TAKG ANOTHER TABLISHED CHARACTER AND CHANGG THEM TO F HIS POLIL WHIMS. BUT THIS SHOULDN’T BE NEWS TO OUR REARS. WE’VE REPORTED ON THIS ALREADY, AND FACT, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, THE CREATOR OF CYBEROG BROKE THIS NEWS MONTHS AGO, AND ’S PART OF THE REASON MANY CREATIV LEFT DC. CLARK KENT IS GOG AWAY. JONATHAN KENT IS TAKG OVER, AND THEY’RE ANNOUNCG HE’S GAY. #SUPERMANISGAY— TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE MEDIA (@ETHANVANSCIVER) AUGT 18, 2021 IF ’S NOT OBV TO YOU THAT THIS IS JT PANRG, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HOW AUGT DC COMICS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THAT FORMER BATMAN SI-KICK TIM DRAKE WAS G OUT AS BISEXUAL. THE MONTH PRR, DC COMICS CELEBRATED PRI MONTH WH A MEMORATIVE (AND POORLY SELLG) ISSUE THAT TRODUCED THE WORLD TO JTICE LEAGUE QUEER, AN AD-HOC TEAM OF LGBTQIA+ HERO FORMED BY GREGOR LA VEGA TO FIGHT OFF ECLIPSO WHEN HE ATTACKED A PRI PARA. I’M NOT KIDDG.  CLARK KENT HAS BEEN EXILED TO ANOTHER PLA, AND WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR A WHILE, SO TECHNILLY, JONATHAN KENT IS DC COMICS’ SUPERMAN CURRENT NTUY.  THE TREND OF ICS BEG ED TO MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, PECIALLY THE AREA OF HOMOSEXUALY, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR A WHILE, PROBABLY SCE THE EARLY 1990S. IN THE MARCH 1992 ISSUE OF MARVEL’S ALPHA FLIGHT IC BOOK SERI, NORTHSTAR, CIS TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET AFTER SEEG THE RAVAGG EFFECT THAT AIDS HAS HAD ON AN ABANDONED BABY. BUT DC COMICS WAS AT THE FOREONT OF THIS, HAVG TRODUCED THEIR FIRST HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTER — THE PIED PIPER — AND CLUD AIDS‑RELATED THEM THEIR FLASH SERI AUGT 1991. BATWOMAN, IALLY SCRIBED AS “A ‘LIPSTICK LBIAN’ WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A CRIME FIGHTER,” WAS LATER TRODUCED 2006. GAY ENOUGH? DC COMICS PROMOT ‘DC PRI’ BOOKS THIS SUMMER GREG RUCKA REBOOTED WONR WOMAN WONR WOMAN: YEAR ONE WHICH HIGHLIGHTED HER TIME ON THEMYSCIRA, CLUDG HER MANY RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER AMAZON WOMEN. THE IC ALSO SHOWED THAT DIANA WAS POLYAMORO AND ONE OF THE MAJOR PLOT THREADS OF THE SERI VOLVED A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ETTA CANDY AND DR. BARBARA ANN MERVA.  SCE THEN WE’VE GOTTEN A GAY GREEN LANTERN, A GAY AQUAMAN HAS TAKEN OVER THAT TLE, AND NEW WE HAVE A NON-BARY FLASH. MAYBE THAT JTICE LEAGUE QUEER TEAM IS REALLY GOG TO BEE A REALY AFTER ALL? IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHY THERE HAS BEEN SUCH A RECENT PH FOR SEVERAL NEW, TRANSNED, AND REIMAGED HOMOSEXUAL “SUPERHERO” AT DC (AND MARVEL COMICS ALSO), BUT I’M BEGNG TO WONR IF THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE ACCTOMED TO SEEG HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS A HEROIC LIGHT OR POSNS OF THORY. AND IF SO, WHY? IT’S BEG NSPICUO THAT THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY CHRISTIAN-FAH FOLLOWG SUPERHERO. AND IS ANYONE EXPECTG TO SEE BATWOMAN SUDNLY FD GOD AND CIDG TO SETTLE DOWN WH A STRAIGHT MAN AND START A FAY? THAT MIGHT E A TWTER MELTDOWN. I’M NOT SUGGTG THEY SERT FAH AND POLICS TO ICS, I’D PREFER THEY DIDN’T, BUT ’S BEEN ONE-SID FOR TOO LONG. AGENDA CONFIRMED: GAY ACTIVIST TV CREATORS ADM TO PROGRAMMG KIDS WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CREATORS THE ANIMATN AND TELEVISN REALM HAVE A SIAR AGENDA, AND WE’RE WELL AWARE THAT DC COMICS’ NEW LEARSHIP ARE HARD LEFT PARTISANS. MARIE JAVS, THE NEWT EDOR--CHIEF IS A VERY VOL BIG SUPPORTER OF LIBERAL . AND DANIEL CHERRY III, THEIR LATT SVP, IS A PROMENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST, WHO RECENTLY HAD THE FOLLOWG TO SAY ABOUT THE DIRECTN DC’S GOG TO BE TAKG MOVG FORWARD: “WHILE ALWAYS RPECTG THE PAST, I ALSO THK ’S OUR RPONSIBILY TO LEVERAGE THE CULTURAL POWER OF DC COMICS AND OUR CHARACTERS TO ENTERTA AND SPIRE AN CREASGLY DIVERSE GLOBAL FAN BASE. COMICS HAVE THE UNIQUE POWER TO CREATE RONANT IMAGERY AND NARRATIV THAT N MOVE THE WORLD TOWARD A BETTER, MORE CLIVE VERSN OF SELF.” OH, AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SUGGT THERE’S AN AGENDA THEY ARE TRYG TO PROMOTE? AND THAT THERE’S NO ATTEMPT TO DOCTRATE OR FLUENCE THE REARS?  THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM WH GAY CHARACTERS. IF THEY ARE WELL-WRTEN AND THE STORI HAPPEN ANILLY, BUT THEY EQUENTLY ARE NOT. THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT GOOD STORI. IT’S AGENDA DRIVEN, AND THE NUMBERS BEAR THAT OUT. WRER JASE PEEPL RECENTLY NOTED THAT, “LGBT HERO AND VILLAS HAVE BEEN MAKG THE REALM OF SUPERHERO A MORE LORFUL PLACE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS. FROM GAY MARTIAL ARTS MASTERS AND LBIAN TECTIV TO BAD-SS BISEXUAL ANTIHERO AND TRANSGENR MAGICIANS, THE ARE 65 CHARACTERS THAT’VE LEFT THEIR MARK AND HELPED CHANGE THE GENRE.” ACRDG TO DC’S WEBSE, THEY HAVE NEARLY 200 LGBTQ CHARACTERS, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE RIVATIV. PHG FOR MORE AND MORE GAY NVERSNS REALLY SEEMS LIKE AN ODD STRATEGY WHEN A ONLY 5% OF THE US POPULATN INTIFI AS LGBTQ. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT’S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIENCE. WOULDN’T PANRG TO CHRISTIANS, WHO MAKE UP AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE US POPULATN, BE A BETTER MONEY-MAKER?  AND YET DC DON’T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS, OR AT LEAST NONE THEY WILLFULLY PROMOTE. AND ’S JT HAPPENSTANCE THAT THE FIRST, MAJOR TRANSGENR SUPERHERO WAS ANNOUNCED MARVEL COMICS FOR DISNEY. HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT POE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OR SUPPORT NSERVATIVE VALU ARE THERE AGA? NO AGENDA AT ALL. MARVEL & DISNEY+ INTRODUCE FIRST TRANSGENR SUPERHERO TO CHILDREN THIS GAY NVERSN THERAPY OF THEIR MALE SUPERHERO IS THE NATURAL RULT OF LEARSHIP CHANG AT THE ICS PUBLISHER. AND AFTER THIS SAL GIMMICK FAILS TO GENERATE THE NUMBERS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, WHAT WILL THE NEXT “STUNNG AND BRAVE” SEXUALY NVERSN BE? AND HOW, IF EVER, N THEY WALK THIS BACK? IT’S TE THAT MARVEL MAY PULLED OFF A WALK-BACK WH NORTHSTAR. AFTER WOLVERE KILLED HIM, I DON’T THK HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN MENTNED SCE HE ME BACK. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS.. OF URSE, NORTHSTAR ISN’T ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SUPERMAN. (EDOR: NORTHSTAR’S HBAND KYLE JADU HAS BEEN APPEARG REGULARLY MARS AND WAS MARVEL’S VOIC: PRI IC) MT BE SOMETHG THE WATER OF THE DC UNIVERSE. DIDN’T TIM DRAKE JT DO THE SAME A FEW WEEKS AGO? ANYONE LOOKG TO THIS EXTRAORDARY PHENOMENA AND WHAT MIGHT BE G ? — BLEEDG FOOL (@BLEEDGFOOL) OCTOBER 11, 2021 SEVERAL ICS-RELATED YOUTUBE MENTERS WEIGHED ON THE NEWS TODAY:THIS IS A NOT A SER PANYWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE THE APATHY OF SUPERMAN AND MAKG HIM GAY!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE SUPERMAN JON KENT OFFICIALLY OUT AS BISEXUALWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE DC COMICS SET TO STROY MANGA SAL?! CONFIRMS JON KENT SUPERMAN AND ROB SWG BOTH WAYS!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE GAY SUPERMAN CONFIRMED…TOM TAYLOR GONNA TOM TAYLORWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A MAJOR ICS STORYLE THAT WAS GRABBG MEDIA HEADL? WAS BATMAN GETTG ENGAGED TO CATWOMAN? OR WHEN CAPTA AMERI WAS REVEALED TO BE A SECRET NAZI? AND BEFORE THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SUPERMAN’S DEAD STORYLE.  SOME BLUE HAIR TERN REALLY THOUGH THIS BOOK WOULD “TOTALLY OWN THE CHUDS” BUT NEVER WORKS LIKE THAT.REMEMBER THE NEW WOKE WARRRS? NOBODY BOUGHT AND WAS NCELLED BEFORE PRT. EVERY TIME THE DTRY PUTS OUT A BOOK LIKE THIS ’S FOR RETWEETS, NOT SAL.— THEQUARTERG (@THEQUARTERG) OCTOBER 11, 2021 MARVEL AND DC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. NOWADAYS ALL THE IC PUBLISHERS N E UP WH IS ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER. YAWN.  NO WONR MANGA IS WNG.   MORE TRENDG STORI:TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT'BLUE BEETLE' COMICS DERVED BETTER THAN ANGEL MANUEL SOTO'S NEW FILMLOOKG BACK AT THE COMICS BOOM & BT THE 1990'SREMENDG THIS COMIC MAY BE A BAD WAY TO PROMOTE 'BLUE BEETLE'W CRAVEN'S 'SWAMP THG' ARRIV BON-LAN 4K RTORATN BLU-RAYCHUCK DIXON SAYS MARVEL WORSE THAN DC DTROYG LEGACY CHARACTERSDC COMICS PRINT JIM LEE RESIGNG MORTAL KOMBAT FIGHTER            COMIC PERCHDAEL CHERRYDANIEL CHERRY IIIDC COMICSETHAN VAN SCIVERHEEL VS BABYFACEJASE PEEPLJIM LEEJOHN TIMMSJONATHAN KENTLGBTQSUPERBOYSUPERMANTOM TAYLORW DGHERYYELLOW FLASHBLOGSCOMICSNEWS TODD FISHER TODD LIV NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WH "THE WIFE," "THE KIDS," "THE DOGS," "THAT T," AND HE OCSNALLY WEARS PANTS. HIS UPG RELEASE, "ARE YOU WOKE ENOUGH YET?", IS THE CULMATN OF TOO MUCH TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKG THE FILM DTRY.RELATED POSTS HOW MARVEL FAILED JACK KIRBY & HOW OTHER CREATORS MISS THE POT ON SUPERHERO MOVI AND THE ETHICS OF “ETHNO-BENDG” TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT INDIE COMICS SHOWSE #237: DATACELL, AL CAPONE VAMPIRE & TRICK OF THE LIGHT MARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROYJUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.

“I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn.

BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to. ” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy. ”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns.

“Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy. ”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.

SUDNLY GAY

In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance. “It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists. Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins.

There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected.

The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors.

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"I had a girliend, and only ever had sexual feelgs for women, but I jt uldn't shake the ia that I was somehow lyg to myself."</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He plugged his headphon, clicked on an X-rated vio and took a ep breath. It was around 3am, the summer of 2007, and relentls fears of homosexualy had tormented him sce the start of the year. "I jt woke up one day and I was sudnly obssed wh . It felt like everythg I thought I knew about myself was fallg apart. It didn't make any sense."</p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He watched, expectg somethg signifint to stir upstairs or down. But there was nothg. Feelg equal measure victory and feat, Darren swched off the monor, laid flat on his bed and wrtled wh his doubts for a few more hours before fally surrenrg to sleep. He rried out the same tt almost every night for the next three weeks, always wh the same rult.</p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">After searchg Inter mental health foms for answers to his private impasse, Darren beme nvced that he was sufferg om 'HOCD': a not officially regnised form of Obssive Compulsive Disorr fed by the fear of beg or beg homosexual. </p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">A has passed sce Darren's self-diagnosis and subsequent therapy, but 'HOCD' still remas a divisive subject wh some sectns of the psychologil healthre muny. Now 26, he is keen to raise awarens for what he believ to be a misunrstood and potentially life-g anxiety disorr.</p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> "I was fobbed off by therapists who jt thought that I mt be gay. I don't want that happeng to anybody else."</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="7" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css ow0dpz">{borr:0.3125rem solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:100%;ntent:'';display:block;height:2.1875rem;left:50%;marg:-0.99rem to 0 -1.33rem;posn:absolute;width:2.1875rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css la9czl">{font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:'"';display:block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:3.4375rem;le-height:0.72;font-style:alic;paddg:0.3125rem 0.875rem 0 0;}</style><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"Oh my God, I've jt noticed a guy and thought he was good lookg. Do that mean…"</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong data-redactor-tag="strong" data-verified="redactor">Avy Joseph is an accreded</strong> Cognive Behavural Therapist and lecturer wh 25 years experience treatg anxiety disorrs. While he asserts that 'HOCD', an acronym ed by sufferers sharg their stori onle, isn't officially classified the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), he says that the irratnal fear of beg or beg gay falls firmly wh the umbrella of Obssive Compulsive Disorr.</p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Someone will tell me that they were walkg down the street and saw a guy, and thought: 'Oh, he's really good lookg.' But then they thk: 'oh my God, I've jt noticed a guy and thought he was good lookg. Do that mean…'" </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Acrdg to Joseph, 's at such nocuo begngs that a self-perpetuatg and all-nsumg obssn wh sexual inty n beg. "The more you sist that you mtn't have a particular thought, gus what happens? You're gog to have hundreds of them," he tells me. "That anxiety, and then you start to thk more unrealistilly. The abily to thk a probabilistic way go out the wdow. Then you ask yourself: 'How n I be absolutely sure that the thoughts won't e back?' And then of urse you start mandg certaty…"</p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">A monly held misnceptn about OCD is that sufferers are all fixated wh ntamatn and uniformy. The tth is, for many, OCD has nothg to do wh overworked light swch or pulsive hand scbbg, and all to do wh tsive, relentls, and often distrsg thoughts that swarm around their heads on a daily basis.</p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Ltle rearch has been published on the rat of sexual obssn OCD sufferers, but a <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="recent study g a sample of 293 subjects" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">recent study g a sample of 293 subjects</a> found that 25% experienced tsive sexual thoughts. And while analysis is srce, a Google search reveals a seemgly endls scroll of people sharg their 'HOCD' experienc on foms, and YouTube vios on the topic often wrack up tens of thoands of views.</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Aaron Harvey, founr of non-prof OCD awarens project <a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0"></a>, is a former sufferer who found aterny on the ter. "[There was] solace the stori of teens on YouTube, and hope om olr generatns sharg experienc and treatment remendatns. If were not for this muny, I may not have ma ," he tells me.</p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">From the age of 11, Aaron was plagued by sexually tsive thoughts, culmatg suici iatns at the age of 21. For him, was a full-time afflictn. "Sufferers will spend hours per day 'checkg' or 'ttg' themselv to try to get to the 'tth' about their sexual inty. I would nstantly check levels of aroal. Objectively asss my stctive attractn towards femal and my lack of tert the male form. I even had obssns that I was actually love wh my former partner's brother." </p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Acrdg to Aaron, four out of five people get tsive thoughts, but one fifty fd them much harr to dismiss, quickly velopg to an all-nsumg obssn.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="16" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"Sufferers will spend hours per day 'checkg' or 'ttg' themselv to try to get to the 'tth' about their sexual inty."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">He says the tsive thoughts n often lead sufferers to make drastic life cisns. "They may go as far as to plan g out to fay and iends, all the while not believg they are gay. In relatnships they may whdraw om their partners emotnally and physilly, bee when you fear that you don't know who you are, you bee paranoid you may be sellg a lie to the person you love the most."</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But what someone to fear the prospect of beg gay the first place? Darren says he grew up a "liberal-ish" hoehold and believ that homosexualy would have been accepted by his fay and iends, but 's easy to see how a ls tolerant upbrgg uld turn homosexualy to a e for anxiety. Aaron, for example, grew up a relig home Orlando, Florida, and attend a private Christian school: "Tryg to n om [what he'd been told were] vlent, blasphemo and v thoughts was extremely paful. I had no sense of inty. I had no ia who I was."</p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Rose Bretécher, btsellg thor of OCD memoir <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor"><a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pure O" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Pure O</a></em>, also experienced tsive doubts about homosexualy, nstantly fearg that her life as a straight woman was a lie. "OCD is sometim lled the 'doubtg disease', bee sufferers stggle wh this kd of uncertaty," she says. "The more I soul-searched, the worse the doubts and acpanyg sexual mental imag got. My sense of self was slippg away, g chaos, anxiety and prsn." She had no way of distguishg whether the thoughts she was experiencg were merely tsive or te reflectns of her sexualy.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="20" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div><p data-no-id="21" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Nowadays, the majory of tablished OCD chari – cludg OCDUK, OCDActn and Md - addrs tsive sexual thoughts as a mon trope of the disorr, but that has done ltle to stem a backlash om some high-profile skeptics wh the psychologil muny, who believe that HOCD is at bt misguid, and at worst homophobia s most pernic guise.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="22" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"My psychologist jt looked bored and hand me a leaflet"</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="23" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong data-redactor-tag="strong" data-verified="redactor">In November 2015, </strong><em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">BuzzFeed</em> UK's LGBT edor Patrick Stdwick published an article tled '<a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn=""World's Leadg Anxiety Expert" Offers Treatment For People Who Worry That They're Gay" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">"World's Leadg Anxiety Expert" Offers Treatment For People Who Worry That They're Gay</a>' that heavily cricised the practice of a Harley Street therapist named Charl Ln who, acrdg to the se, boasted of a "100% succs rate" the treatment of "HOCD".</p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">At the time the article was wrten, Ln's publishers were dubbg him as "the world's leadg thory on anxiety", and his webse ma hefty promis to sexually-nfed OCD sufferers. "If you are experiencg HOCD … and the thoughts ," the se read, "you are not gay and when you do my Method to elimate this and your other anxieti you'll fd out why you thk you might be and why you certaly are NOT!"</p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In their report, <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">BuzzFeed</em> revealed that Ln lacked any medil, psychiatric or psychotheraptic trag, ultimately managg to get his practice disavowed by two major mental health anisatns that had prevly featured as endorsements. He has sce troduced a number of veats on his webse, and remas as Google's featured rult for the search 'HOCD'.</p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">BuzzFeed</em>'s skepticism wasn't aimed solely at Ln's shaky crentials and clumsy phrasg but also towards the credibily of sexualy-centred OCDs as a whole, and the ethics of therapists who seek to treat . They terviewed a number of proment mental health profsnals on the matter, who echoed the argument that the ncept of 'HOCD' was seeped homophobia and psdo psychology.</p><p data-no-id="27" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Elizabeth Peel, chair of the Brish Psychologil Society's 'Psychology of Sexuali' sectn and a profsor of Communitn & Social Interactn at Loughborough Universy, stat wh the piece that: "The term 'Homosexual OCD' is simply nversn therapy unr another guise and somethg we strongly nmn as damagg."</p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">She went on to say: "People should be wary of the way this therapy is beg promoted, and there are no published peer-reviewed studi to back up the claims that are beg ma."</p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Profsor Dh Bhuga, a former print of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, also cricised the practice, tellg <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor">BuzzFeed</em>: "HOCD is not a regnised ndn. By 'creatg' such a ndn there is a ser danger of medilisg normal human emotns and turng lots of people who are var stag of g out, and for var reasons are stgglg to accept their sexualy, to 'ill' dividuals."</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It's clear that the term 'HOCD', ed by onle sufferers and unregnised by the DSM (which only referenc obssns wh "sexual imagery"), n act as a muddyg misnomer the nversatn around tsive sexual thoughts. Even Bretécher believ the phrase is a "ltle misleadg", and the anisatn OCDUK has warned that such unendorsed acronyms provi unnecsary nfn to sufferers and mental health profsnals alike.</p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And yet spe the nmnatns, the treatment of tsive sexual thoughts has across-the-board regnn wh the OCD muny. Is jt a matter of semantics? Or do pot to a eper disagreement?</p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">I asked Elizabeth Peel to clarify her "nversn therapy" ments. In rponse she wrote: "The pot I was makg was that 'Homosexual OCD', as I unrstand , is very siar to 'ternalised homophobia'. The ma issue is not to treat same-sex sexualy as somethg that is problematic."</p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Aaron believ this is a misterpretatn of the problem at hand. "The statement that 'HOCD is nversn therapy unr another guise' breaks my heart," he tells me over email. "It monstrat the pomp of amia and the fundamental divi between their muny and ours. Misrmatn is everywhere. And 's not jt msage foms, 's g om the mouths of therapists, relig unselors, psychologists and psychiatrists who fundamentally do not unrstand OCD. Th, the explosn of onle muni."</p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">When Darren suffered a "kd of breakdown" 2007, he looked to the NHS for help. "The thoughts were gettg impossible to live wh, so I drove to the hospal and they sat me down wh what I thk was a psychologist. I opened up about how I was feelg, but he looked bored and said: "Well, maybe you're jt gay" and hand me a leaflet. That set me back a long way."</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="35" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"I'm certaly not terted nvertg gay men to straight men."</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="36" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong data-redactor-tag="strong" data-verified="redactor">Peel's reference to gay nversn therapy</strong> - the wholly discreded and dangero effort to 'cure' homosexualy - certaly darkens the tone of the nversatn. And an age where even the <a data-trackg-id="recirc-text-lk" href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Vice Print of the Uned Stat has exprsed tac support for the practice" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Vice Print of the Uned Stat has exprsed tac support for the practice</a>, 's unrstandable that high profile figur the psychologil muny would nmn anythg that uld fuel the rhetoric of homophobic 'therapists', or provi party-le approval of their methods. After all, spe recent headways by LGBT groups and nunciatn om former Print Barrack Obama, gay nversn therapy is still legal across the US and only six stat have banned the practice relatn to mors. It's clear that, Ameri at least, the fight is far om over.</p><p data-no-id="37" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But uld be that this kd of soc-polilly vigilant thkg might impe our abily to engage wh this particular mental health disorr a nuanced manner? While attempts to dismiss the ndn may be well-tentned, they risk leavg sufferers whout proper psychiatric help.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"As a gay man, I'm certaly not terted nvertg gay men to straight men. Sexualy is anic as far as I'm ncerned," Avy Joseph says when I brg up the subject of nversn therapy. </p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"If a client who is gay but anx about the nsequenc of acceptg themselv or g out go to a therapist who has an agenda about homosexualy, then of urse that therapist isn't workg the bt tert of their clients. I image they exist, but I've never met one who would publicly say homosexualy is wrong. It's pletely uhil."</p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Rose Bretécher believ the accatn HOCD is jt 'ternalised homophobia' is rrect, but don't blame anyone for leapg to such a ncln: "People's unrstandg is only as good as the rmatn available out there – and awarens is still pretty poor. I thk cur skepticism is healthy and that personal ttimony alone don't prove much. But thankfully no-one has to take my word for – go read the huge amount of objective rmatn available on specialist OCD web-s and chari."</p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Joseph tells me that he has never had a gay person e to him wh tsive thoughts about heterosexualy, but ttimony exists on Inter foms, and the OCD Center of Los Angel stat that do happen. "Over the years, therapists here […] have treated many homosexuals (male and female) who are plagued by obssive fears of beg "straight", and who suffer equally when OCD attacks their sexual inty," stat their webse, which also offers an onle HOCD tt. "It is not exclive to heterosexuals. At s re, sexual orientatn OCD is the fear of not knowg for sure, paired wh the fear of never beg able to have a healthy, lovg relatnship wh a partner to whom one feels genuely attracted."</p><p data-no-id="42" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Which brgs to perhaps the most important qutn: how n a therapist tell the difference between an OCD sufferer experiencg tsive and irratnal sexual thoughts, and a person gog through a difficult procs of sexual realisatn?</p><p data-no-id="43" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"You'd make an asssment," says Joseph, who practic a variant of Cognive Behavural Therapy lled Ratnal Emotive Therapy. "You'd ask qutns about whether they fd men sexually arog, or whether they have wet dreams about men, and whether they are exced by the ia of sex wh men.[…] If the asssment is that the person is not gay, bee you believe as a therapist that there is no evince, that do not mean they have ternalised homophobia. They're jt askg themselv: why did I have this thought?"</p><p data-no-id="44" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And the treatment?</p><p data-no-id="45" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"The person who has OCD is highly anx about this obtsive thought. Once they accept the thought, then be apparent that their OCD disappears. Instead of fightg the thought, they've accepted whout addg any meang to . The whole therapy I practice is based on acceptance."</p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And what if turns out that the patient is gay, after all? </p><p data-no-id="47" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"If someone is fearful of beg gay bee beg gay reprents to them abandonment by their fay, or rejectn, or experiencg vlence or abe, then you would help them to accept themselv unndnally as a gay man."</p><p data-no-id="48" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong data-redactor-tag="strong" data-verified="redactor">Ironilly, acceptance rts at the heart</strong> of both sis' arguments; acceptance of thought, sexualy and self. And 's impossible to know how far apart people actually stand on the issue, given the way that the ntroversy blurs the bate.</p><p data-no-id="49" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"If the path to treatment is facilated through an onle muny that has ed a theme lled HOCD, how is that hurtg people?" argu Aaron. "Onle muni sharg mon experienc to better unrstand their ndn is cril to a global society." </p><p data-no-id="50" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That beg said, he strs that an OCD diagnosis om a clil psychologist is val. "Remember, everyone has tsive thoughts about sexualy. So tsive thoughts about your sexual inty alone are not enough to know you have OCD."</p><p data-no-id="51" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"> Ten years and two psychologists after that first, ght experiment wh gay porn, Darren still suffers recurrg bouts of OCD, but not around his inty as a straight man. "My anxiety n be fueled by a lot of stuff, but I jt do the same thg I was tght to do wh fears about sexualy. </p><p data-no-id="52" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">"Accept , let the thought pass, and move on."</p><p data-no-id="53" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><strong><em>Like this article? 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