Journal of Human Sexuality Study Finds Sexuality Fluidity Exploration Can Change Attraction

It’s no longer considered politically correct to discuss changing physical attraction from one gender to the other, but some are forging ahead anyway with exploring it. The left preaches that people should be able to determine their own sexuality, but hypocritically doesn’t defend the freedom to change from same-sex attraction to opposite-sex attraction.

A new study published in the Journal of Human Sexuality examined 75 adult males who reported same-sex attractions and wanted to explore their sexual attraction fluidity. Therapists skilled in reintegrative therapy worked with the men to seek and resolve past traumatic memories. The focus was on resolving this emotional pain, not actually changing attraction, which can occur naturally as a result of this therapy. One participant explained, “My therapist never tried to get me to change my sexuality, or who I was attracted to, but instead helped me to process traumatic memories from my past that had brought me shame and fear.”

Another of the participants said in response to criticism of the treatment, “If somebody said to me, ‘Oh this is just your religion,’ I would say, ‘So what if it is, how is that your business to determine the validity of my religion? How dare you. Is that not my right?’”

While there is a movement to get rid of “conversion therapy,” which in the past has involved aversion techniques like shame, pain, or coercion to try to force people to change their gender attraction, reintegrative therapy is nothing like it. In reintegrative therapy, the patient drives the treatment, it’s their choice. For whatever reason, they have chosen to change their sexual attraction. People on both sides are finally starting to understand that sexuality is fluid, it’s not just something that can be boiled down to either, “Are people born gay, or is it a choice?” And so far no one has discovered a “gay gene” either.

Its proponents honestly admit it doesn’t work for everyone. Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Jr., is following in the footsteps of his father who pioneered the therapy. His father readily admitted that about one-third of his clients did not change their sexual attraction. However, the therapy helped them in other areas, such as improving family and peer relationships.

Finding success with reintegrative therapy in sexual attraction, Nicolosi also just expanded the treatment recently to binge eating. He found success there too, with all six of the participants from diverse backgrounds in the study showing progress in stopping binge eating. Five of the six also showed improvements in their well-being.

If people should be allowed to choose which gender they are attracted to, then why aren’t they allowed to change from same-sex to opposite-sex attraction? The left is getting conversion therapy banned all around the U.S., which is understandable considering a lot of the harmful side effects some people had from it. But if someone voluntarily chooses as an adult to explore changing their attraction, it seems fair to allow them the option.

The transgender arena is undergoing a similar controversy, as those deciding to turn back from changing genders find there is little support. But a lot of transgenders go back and forth, so why are the ones who want to transition back treated so poorly? And anyone who dares defend them gets labeled as transphobic.

Unfortunately, the left wants to silence anyone who offers any option not out of their playbook on how gender and sexuality must be treated. You’re allowed to be gay, you’re just not allowed to change from gay to straight. When The Daily Wire’s “The Michael Knowles Show” interviewed Nicolosi about regenerative therapy, a Twitter account with five followers tweeted at one of the advertisers, Harry’s, complaining. Harry’s, which makes skincare products for men, caved and tweeted that they would no longer be advertising on the show.

The battle of gay rights is essentially over. Gays can marry and have children, and students are taught to be proud of being gay. So why can’t gays who want to explore changing their sexuality consider becoming straight of their own volition? Wasn’t the whole gay rights movement about letting gays decide what they want to do sexually?

Regenerative therapy isn’t about religion. It’s about individualism, people making choices for themselves. This is why so many gays and transgenders are emerging on the right. They realize the left only allows one viewpoint about LGBT issues, and at the same time, they see through the left’s lies that the right is their enemy.

Lady MAGA is an outspoken conservative gay man who dresses in drag, and so Delta fired him and Instagram banned him. Many of today’s most well-known conservative leaders are gay, including Trump’s Acting Director of National Intelligence and cabinet member Richard Grenell, Townhall’s Guy Benson, talk show host Tammy Bruce, talk show host Dave Rubin and political analyst Rob Smith. No one believes the left’s hateful talk anymore that conservatives hate gays, and so the more they continue with it, the more gays will flock to the GOP so they can make their own decisions about their lives and choose their own beliefs.

All sexuality is fluid and can change.

I've read that: somewhere...

A BIBLICAL Message about homosexuality

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
Romans 1 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20 Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

24 Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite.
2 Peter 2
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

The Health Risks of gay sex.

We are living in a Genesis 19:9 world...

"Get out of our way,” they replied.
“This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

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