Is sexual identity impossible?
366359
no,no,and no again.Don't read so much tosh,it's bad for you
847987
Well, after reading some of the answers here, I have to add my two cents worth.\n\nFirst off, your sexual orientation is NOT a choice.  Given the choice, I don't think most people are going to willingly put themselves at the added risks of being homosexual (bashings, job issues).  I wouldn't.\n\nSecond, Homosexuality and Bisexuality are found in all parts of the animal kingdom.  this is documented, and found both in zoos, and in the wild.  \n\nI can only hope that acceptance of others differences, sexuality and cultural, will someday happen.
666006
This should help...\n\nQ: Can a transsexual be fully a woman?\nA: Yes, but to a point- hormonally, physically, psychologically, and emotionally (basically all the aspects of being a female that society considers important), but not genetically- a person who got a sex change will still have XY, or male, chromosomes. A test for XX (female) or XY (male) will show that the person is genetically male.\n\nSome people don't believe this, that "you can always tell" a person got a sex change based on the look of their genitals, and this is wrong. Female genitals come in a huge variety of different looks- no female looks exactly any ther female in the genital department. There is a good chance that a gynecologist won't be able to tell, and they specialize in what vaginas look like. For all intents and purposes, internally, you would look like a hysterectomized female- vagina, but no cervix (opening that leads into the womb).\n\nA real transsexual desires to be fully transformed into a woman, and no half steps will be acceptable. They will not be happy AT ALL with having male parts on their crotch- it's embarassing to them and disgusts them that they have male parts attached to them. A transsexual sees a penis as something foreign attached to their body- that it shouldn't be there in the first place. A transsexual also doesn't want to become a woman because of a fetish- there is no erotic component to transformation for them. A transsexual is a woman in a male body, so I refer to them as "she".\n\nNow, a man who has a fetish about being feminized will seek breast implants, may take a few hormones (but nothing like a transsexual, who takes them every day, nonstop), and get some surgeries to make them look more female. I must reinforce the idea here that THEY ARE MEN. They have no desire to have their penis removed, they just have a sexual fetish about being a woman.\n\nSometimes, when a real transsexual is in the middle of their transition and they need money to get more operations, AND they still have male parts, some will swallow their pride and go into the pornogarphy business to make money to finish their transformations. They don't like it, but they will do it to get money to get their sex changes. Some persons that are half woman-half man are really men and just in the business to satisfy another fetish- they are also exhibitionists. \n\nI don't know what the numbers are for the proportion of real transsexuals and shemale exhibitionists, but a transsexual is in it for one thing only- to get money to get a sex change. A fetishist would be in it just to satisfy a fetish. If a person in this situation is constantly talking about getting a sex change, they are more than likely a real transsexual, and as soon as they can afford a sex change, they will be out of the business.
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I dont think we can know how each individual arrived at their point of homosexuality. I wonder myself, but I guess there are causes and choices.\n\nMaybe it's different for everyone, and there are lots of causes that sometimes converge, like biology and choice and upbringing. Theres no doubt you can choose to try it, but some people will be more predisposed than others for whoever knows what reason?\n\nSome theorists think that having a rejecting parent of, interestingly, the opposite sex, can cause problems with accepting own sexuality. \nIf this happens then an individual can try to gain their parents acceptance by rejecting their own sexuality which they are just becoming aware of as well as their parents sexual identity. The anger and humilitation the child feels at rejection is turned inward towards the percived cause of that rejection, their own differing sexual identity. The child misses out on the process of learning to accept their sexual identity because they percieve they are not acceptible as they are.\n\nOther that that, I think people have isolated a supposed "gay gene" that may be involved.\nTheres probably lot of reasons including just wanting to try everything which is kind of daft and might lead you to places you really dont want to be! \nlike in the arms of your best friend! Either way I think there is an element of freewill for some people but not for others.
9242
this is strictly a matter of opinion.  there are people that believe that homosexuality it a choice (maybe not a conscious choice, but something happened in their life to make this choose this) and others believe that they are born that way.  And then you always have those people that are not homosexual that just like to experiement, and then there are always those sexual perverts that will swing all over the place.  So, if you believe that someone chose to be gay, then sure, then can chose to be straight too.  If you believe that they were born that way, then I would say the answer is no, you can't choose to be something that you are not.  I personally... believe it is a choice.
152309
yes you are an asexual person but not in all meanings of the word, you have sex organs so you are not completely asexual. It's not common at all most people are sexual in some way or form whether it be hetero homo or bi. kind of cool though, you have to be a very confident person not having to worry about how other see you.
1157498
I doubt it. If you're truly homosexual then I don't think you can change your preference. I think some people aren't truly homosexual... so if you only have "tendancies" then I don't know... you'd have to figure that out.
135352
It's possible, just most people don't have the mental capacity for it. If you don't have the mental capacity for it, you're going to think it's not possible. A good friend of mine has two girlfriends he loves beyond physical/sexual attraction, and they know and hang out with each other.
382680
It is totally possible to hold Christian beliefs and be gay. It's just not possible to believe that God accept's your lifestyle. The Bible makes it clear that same sexes coming together is an abomination. either give up the penis or Prepare to swim in the lake of fire dude.
272501
You can't "turn gay".  You can choose to accept it or deny it.
165323
well by definition society is non-gay. If it wasn't it would be awfully short-lived. I'm not sure what the difference between a gay life and a hetero life is besides what goes on behind closed doors. If that aspect can remain stable, I would say yes, it is possible.
324197
No- it is impossible.  All of us are forever changing as a result of continued life experiences.
546391
Gay people are gay, just as straight people are straight.  You can't "become" either.
266992
Actually, you can be gay. There's no law against it.\n\nI think that being gay is weird, and slightly freaky (no offence to anyone; this is my opinion). Of course, I realize people in the world are gay; there's nothing nobody can do to really stop it.
184584
Okay...\n\n(1)  The "girlish" or feminine side in every male psyche is probably unrelated to his sexual identity as a gay, straight, or bi man.  Certainly the sets of traits that get characterized as "feminine" (whatever that means) are present in different degrees in every man, just as the sets of traits that get characterized as "masculine" are present in different degrees in every woman.  Maybe the whole girlish and boyish thing is a ruse, anyway, to keep us all acting as our authority figures instruct.  \n\n(2)  That said, to the extent your question is about being "100% straight," you may be confusing sexual fluidity (that the categories aren't as fixed and intractable as we are conditioned to believe) with actually taking on a bisexual identity.  Certainly a lot more people are bi than are comfortable admitting it.\n\n(3)  Being bi, however, is not universal.  The fluidity of sexuality is fairly universal.  But actually being a bisexual man is a particular sexual identity, not a secret reality beneath the surface of straight or gay identity.  Bi men are their own thing, their own culture, their own life-way.  Sexual fluidity is a different phenonenon--living culturally as a straight man, and primarily relating sexually to women, but with a capacity for some homoerotic desire or experience--this happens all the time, and would happen much more were the social consequences of being branded gay so negative in a homophobic society.\n\nSome of us, though, really are bi.  That means we are not hiding ourselves inside someone else's identity.  We live openly as bi men all the time, even when sexually monogamous to one partner (whether male or female).
110711
there is only one: sexual attraction to the same sex.  Other than that homosexuals come in all shapes, sizes, colors, masulinities/femininities etc.
714311
I do not think its an apt comparison. There are homosexual celibates and homosexual virgins. If I woke up and wasn't homosexual, I would feel I had lost part of my identity and wouldn't know who I was.