What percentage, or other statistical figure, of gays and lesbians turn straight every year? What are some of the common reasons for the change in sexual orientation?

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• They've got this great device in the military (since WWII in fact), technology available to the civilian research institutions as well, which measures your erections when you are viewing pornography of various types.
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  The use is obvious: the military doesn't allow openly gay men and women to serve in the military, so during a draft the obvious thing to claim is that you are homosexual so you won't have to serve. With this device the military was able to determine if a claim of homosexuality was true or not, as what turns you on really isn't a matter for voluntary control.
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  Some university medical departments which do homosexuality studies have such a device in their possession. While you shouldn't have to "get tested", such test results may well help silence those in your life who claim that you are just choosing to like the same gender.

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  by eternal0void on August 5th, 2008

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• Groundless.

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  by Tondoteottotote on October 9th, 2006

• How is it groundless? The chairperson at Exodus manages to wander into the only gay bar in miles of straight bars to "use the bathroom" on a far too regular basis for it to be "groundless."

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  by eternal0void on October 5th, 2009

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• I say penis-test the lot of them (well, the men anyway) with the U.S. Military-developed "homosexuality test" device.
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  If they're really "turned", then gay pornography won't give them erections.

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  by eternal0void on August 5th, 2008

• Spitzer said he has no proof that participants were honest. But he said several findings suggest their statements cannot be dismissed out of hand.
  
  
  Any time there isn't conclusive proof, statements of fact SHOULD BE "dismissed out of hand"

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  by Jackey on September 16th, 2009

• From ReligiousTolerance.org "An analysis of Dr. Spitzer's study"
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  There are at least four fatal flaws in the study, any one of which seriously weakens the validity of the study, in our opinion:
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  1. All or almost all of the 200 subjects interviewed were referred by reparative therapists or by Christian transformational ministries. Apparently all or almost all of the clients were evangelical Christians. Thus: (a) they probably would have defined "homosexuality" in terms of behavior, not orientation; and (b) any results would not necessarily be representative of non-evangelicals.
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  2. Dr. Spitzer did not include "bisexuality" as an option. "Spitzer told Extra! he did not include a category for bisexuality in his study 'because there's no accepted definition of what bisexuality is'." Thus it is not known what percentage of the 200 subjects initially had a homosexual orientation, and what percentage had a bisexual orientation.

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  by eternal0void on October 5th, 2009

• 3. Dr. Spitzer conducted one 45 minute telephone interview with no anonymity, and no followup. Telephone interview data on behavior and practice are notoriously unreliable. Individuals often answer questions according to what they think others expect of them. For example, 17% of American adults say that they tithe (i.e. give 10 to 13% of their income to their church). Only 3% really do.
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  4. Assuming that the more than 1,000 therapists in NARTH each have had 50 clients per year over the previous five years, then they have treated over 250,000 homosexuals and bisexuals with reparative therapy. Various transformational ministries have treated thousands or tens of thousands of other gays, bisexuals and lesbians who were seeking change. Yet, Dr. Spitzer was only able to find 200 potential subjects for his study in all of America. This alone indicates that reparative therapy is almost always a failure.

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  by eternal0void on October 5th, 2009

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• I have a confession to make. I’m not gay. I never have been and never will be. I wrote my previous comment because I was alone on New Years Eve and bored. I apologize for not being honest with you. I wanted to spark people’s interest and get a healthy conversation going. I have to admit I’m disappointed that no evangelical Christians responded. I wanted to have a good debate with them. It is true that the one girl was trying to get back at me because I wouldn’t go out with her so she started that nasty rumor about me. Her friends bought into the lie and helped her spread it. These were some hard up women and all but one couldn’t find themselves a man (even he wasn’t much). Sometimes I think if I had a choice between being with one of them or being gay I’d be better of being gay. Not really but it’s a thought.
  
  People are not born gay they are made gay. People become a product of their environment. Those who associate with others approving of homosexuality, or were sexually abused themselves start to think it’s normal or at the very least acceptable because of their exposure (physical or mental) to the gay lifestyle. Like talk radio, when you listen to conservatives all the time you start to see their point of view. Maybe you’ll never agree with everything they say, the host still has a tendency to sway your thinking. Then if you start listening to liberal talk radio you’ll find your thinking being pulled back to the center.
  
  Looking at porn affects your mind the same way. I never thought about sex that much until I started surfing porn websites. Then at work I’d start fantasizing about it, even at times having problems focusing on work. Then I’d gravitate towards the BDSM (femdom) websites and after a while I found myself surfing t-girl sites. This stuff use to disgust me. Now here I was being aroused by men who have had sexual reassignment surgery. Some of these t-girls would turn a lot of heads if seen out in public or at the beach wearing a bikini. They would pass for very attractive females and that’s what aroused me when surfing these t-girl porn sites, their female attributes. Not the fact that they were really men. I know this is true because I find gay porn site disgusting.
  
  As far as what the Bible says about homosexuality is as follows:
  
  The term “homosexuality” and “homosexual” are coinages of the 19th century C.E. and have no equivalent in ancient Hebrew or Greek. It is debatable whether the modern idea of homosexuality (an erotic attraction focused only or primarily on persons of the same gender) existed at all in during Biblical times. The Bible does not appear to say anything directly about homosexuality in the modern sense of the term A few passages do refer to same gender genital acts. The term “homosexual” is in some modern English translations (usually in 1 Cor. 6:9, 1 Tim. 1:10), but the key Greek term involved (arsenokoites) is rare and of uncertain meaning.
  
  In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18:16-33) the men of Sodom threaten Lot’s guest by saying that they want to “know” them. Since the verb “to know” would be used in Hebrew as a euphemism for the sexual act, they may mean to commit anal rape on them, thus violating their sacred duty towards strangers. The later idea that the Sodom story condemns all male-male sexual acts does not appear in the story itself or in the references to Sodom elsewhere in the Bible, but first appeared in ancient Greek-speaking Judaism. In the NT Jude interprets the sin of Sodom as the desire to have sex with angels (“strange flesh”; Jude 7).
  
  In Leviticus male-male sexual intercourse is condemned as an “abomination” a serious violation of purity (Lev. 18:22; 20:13). In Rom. 1:18-32 Paul treats same-sex intercourse as a prime example of the impurity characteristic of Gentiles. He regards it as unclean and dishonorable. It was a punishment given to the Gentiles for their failure to worship the true God.

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  by tobey on March 25th, 2010