it's difficult to change a sexual orientation
Submitted by Dgennero on August 24 1999 at 04:17:21
In reply to Is there a cure Submitted by Ewok on August 24 1999 at 00:20:33
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The best cure still is one that lets you live with it and keep it under control. "Curing it away" would mean to repress it. You don't feel it anymore, but it is still there and someday it might come up with a bad surprise from the depths of your subconcious mind. You should integrate this part of your personality into the rest of you, so you can live with it. From *your* point of view, you could see it as a temptation to resist. I think it is better to make yourself strong against temptation than trying to remove the temptation itself. Monks for example have to live celibate. They have to resist the temptation to seek out women (or men) all the time. But they don't try to "cure the urge away". I've been on a visit to a Benediktine monastery a while ago and had the opportunity to talk to some monks together with other visitors. They were asked about, and admitted, all sorts of sexual urges. They saw it as a "test". So live with it and make yourself resistant through religious studies and prayer, if this is your chosen way of life. |