Is it possible for a person to change their sexual orientation? Can a hetrosexual become homosexual at will?

Answer 1

In a sense, yes-we all choose what to act upon, no matter what our orientation. Thinking and feeling are different than doing. Feelings can change over time, too. All kinds of people have overcome all kinds of addictions, for instance.
In a sense, no: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots?" Jeremiah 13:23 But, "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." Phillipians 4:13
A person can do just about anything he sets his mind to.

Press Room > November 6, 2003
Homosexual Activists Withholding Truth on Reparative Therapy

Homosexuals are Being Misled Regarding Therapy Effectiveness
Colorado Springs—Dr. Bill Maier, vice president and psychologist in residence at Colorado-based Focus on the Family, said today that new research by Dr. Robert Spitzer at Columbia University shows conclusively that some homosexuals are able to change their orientation to heterosexual. Maier said that claims by homosexual activist organizations that change is impossible are “politically motivated” and that homosexuals who are unhappy with their sexual orientation are being “deceived by their own leaders.”

Spitzer, a psychiatrist and active supporter of “gay” rights, led the 1973 effort to have the American Psychiatric Association remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. In research published in the October issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, he reported on the results of his study of 200 homosexuals who participated in reparative therapy to change their sexual orientation. Spitzer found that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of the women had achieved what he termed “good heterosexual functioning” lasting for a period of at least five years. In addition, 89 percent of the men and 95 percent of the women said they were bothered “slightly,” or “not at all,” by unwanted homosexual feelings.

Maier said Spitzer’s research flies in the face of activists’ claims that homosexuality is inborn and immutable.

“Dr. Spitzer’s study clearly shows that homosexuality is not a permanent, unchangeable condition. Gay men and lesbian women who are dissatisfied with their sexual orientation should have the right to seek reparative therapy, even though gay activist organizations want to deny them that right.”

While homosexual groups claim that reparative therapy is harmful and can lead to depression and suicide, Spitzer’s study showed just the opposite. Those who had undergone therapy experienced much less depression. Forty-three percent of the men and 47 percent of the women reported being “markedly” or “extremely” depressed before therapy. After therapy, only 1 percent of the men and 4 percent of the women reported having been depressed at any time during the year prior to the study.

“Millions of gays and lesbians are being told by the mainstream media and the leaders of their own community that change is impossible, and that therapy will only lead to hopelessness and depression, which is simply false,” Maier said. “In light of this research and the potentially life-threatening medical consequences of homosexual behavior, such duplicity is callous and irresponsible.”
Blessings, Buttercup

Answer 2

Yes. Sexual orientation, in my opinion, is a choice. Also, studies by people with credentials (that may be important to some) think they can prove the two states in question are not genetic. Some of the scientists involved expressed that they had a personal interest in the outcome of the investigation (they were homosexuals) but could not prove that orientation was genetic.

The question should be: What value do you place on the opinions of others on this issue? I say this because:

If a person who has been stereotyped as heterosexual chooses to have a homosexual experience or chooses a homosexual lifestyle, many people may assume that he or she was always a homosexual. And if a person who has been labeled a homosexual has a heterosexual experience or chooses a heterosexual lifestyle, many people may assume that he or she is still a homosexual but is only taking a break.

The second part of your question adds the condition 'at will'. This condition would involve two or more people so each of their wills would have to be considered before the hetero... could complete a homosexual act (unless he/she wants to commit a crime). This person can consider themselves whatever they want at any given time but when the tree actually falls in the forest and someone hears it, the sound it makes is appearent to the listener. The beholder will always judge beauty.

Answer 3

Your orientation is pretty much locked in genetically, although there are varying degrees of attraction, as well as the free will to act as you see fit upon any of your sexual impulses. Put a blindfold on the most homophobic of men and let a guy perform oral sex on him and the only thing he will know is that it's the best he's ever had. Likewise, there are millions of gay parents with their own biological children - the concept that just because one is gay or lesbian means the plumbing doesn't work is just unbridled stupidity. The whole concept of homo/hetero in the US is based on elizabethan/puritannical laws carried over from the dark ages. Having sex with a same sex partner no more makes you gay than sitting in the cockpit of a jumbo jet makes you a pilot, yet that is how most Americans approach sexual orientation. How you express yourself sexually is NOBODY ELSES' BUSINESS provided it doesn't violate the law and it harms nobody. Nor does it automatically place you into a neat category. Being gay or not being gay is not a choice - you either are or you aren't. You can be gay, get married, raise a family, and never touch another same-sex person. It's been done, many times over. You can also be gay, never marry, but have biological children of your own. It's been done, many times over as well. Whom you sleep with neither makes you bad nor good, but being a bigot makes you pretty much worthless trash and a sorry excuse for a human being - and THAT'S a choice.

Answer 4

Yes. I think it is absolutely possible. I am a heterosexual woman. But by making a choice to be with women I can become homosexual, or by making a choice to be with both women and men I can become bisexual or ambiguous. We all make choices.

Answer 5

Anyone can choose who they have sex with heterosexual or homosexual. However people can not change who the are attracted to or their feelings.

Answer 6

NO! Impossible. It's coded in before birth

Answer 7

Well... lets just put it this way: your question basicly is the description of a bisexual.

Answer 8

Nope. Neither can a hetero become homo.

Answer 9

Only if they change their mind.

Answer 10

i know a girl that did that, so yes