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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (21615)	8/1/2012 3:21:01 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"You never told me about the statistics of curing gayness?" when we find the virus it will be 100%

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (21615)	8/1/2012 4:53:00 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

There are gay people who are afraid of being gay and are scared/confused enough to live as a straight person. That's a healthy response, gay people have worse lives, more diseases, more depression, more tumultuous and violent relationships than straight people. This doesn't mean that they changed their mind when they finally faced the reality. You're making an assumption there. You're saying they had false consciousness or something before. There is nothing anyone can say or do to turn me gay. So I don't buy that it is a matter of choice, at least not for many people. You don't want to be gay but if for some strange reason you decided you wanted to, you could. You never told me about the statistics of curing gayness? Because there aren't any statistics on that. And that doesn't mean if there were the statistic would be zero. As I've shown there are people who live as straights and then decide to live as gays - like Anne Heche and Rove's stepdad. But I'll take a stab at estimating it: In general, most research agrees that the number of people who have had multiple same-gender sexual experiences is fewer than the number of people who have had a single such experience, and that the number of people who identify themselves as exclusively homosexual is fewer than the number of people who have had multiple homosexual experiences en.wikipedia.org That means there are obviously a significant number of people who are willing to try homosexuality and chose to reject it. How many? OK, let's try estimating that: The National Health and Social Life Survey asked 3,432 respondents whether they had any homosexual experience. The findings were 1.3% for women within the past year, and 4.1% since 18 years; for men, 2.7% within the past year, and 4.9% since 18 years. [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States That means of the 4.1% of women who try homosexuality as adults, most (68% of that 4.1%) reject it and choose to be straight thereafter. And it means that of the 4.9% of men that try homosexuality as adults, 45% reject it and choose to live their life as straights. I think those percentages show that there ARE lots of people who could have been gay but chose not to be.