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Along the same lines, people can be conditioned by their life experiences, learning to become aroused by something or someone "only after having a sexual experience with them," Hoffmann wrote in a February review paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Hoffmann's research focuses on the way that experiences and learning influence people's arousal patterns. After this learning experience, the latter group of quails maintained a sexual preference for males, suggesting that they were being sexually oriented through learning.

There's reason to think women's sexual preferences, in particular, can change in response to an experience with a member of their non-preferred sex. To polarize a crowd, bring up sexual reorientation. Follow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter nattyover.

Sexual orientation cements around puberty, and according to Gerulf Rieger, a sexual orientation researcher at Cornell University, "it is quite possible that there are several influences on forming a homosexual orientation. It is currently unknown whether some combination of Pavlovian conditioning, learning processes and even hormone therapies could enable truly motivated individuals with a same-sex predisposition to adapt to heterosexual lifestyles, whether for religious, cultural or personal reasons.

However, their presumed natural predilection for females was not lost: Another experiment showed it was much easier to reorient those male quails toward females through "reverse learning" than it was to try and reorient males who had already had sex with females toward other males.

Hoffmann's work shows that both men and women can be conditioned to become sexually aroused by exposure to a cue, such as an odor or object. As Diamond noted in January in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, females' sexual fluidity may emerge from the finding that, across the board, they are sexually aroused by images of both men and women whereas men are typically aroused only by members of their preferred sex.

But can people ever be conditioned to become aroused by members of their non-preferred sex? Sexual experiences affect our arousal patterns by altering what activities or features of sexual partners arouse us, Hoffmann said.

But considering that very few scientists view homosexuality as a problem needing fixing, will these clinical reorientation therapies ever be developed? But switching to a "straight" identity doesn't rid them of their former attractions.

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This blog aims [ ]. Lastly, gay people aren't really "born that way" in the sense of having same-sex attractions from the moment of birth. We don't want you to actually think about your experiences or emotions, we just want to hear you say that you're wrong and you need help.

EDIT: I can‘t believe I have to say this, but guys: YOU DON‘T JUST STOP BEING GAY. Stop being straight for a day and tell me how that worked out for you. Humans might not be so malleable — other experiments show conditioning typically works better and faster for animals than it does for people — but according to Hoffmann, some of us might be.

There are no verified cases of formerly gay people completely ridding themselves of same-sex attraction, but it does appear possible for some people who are predisposed to same-sex attraction to expand their sexual repertoire — develop attractions for opposite-sex partners as well, and even opt for the opposite sex exclusively.

She has demonstrated that sexual arousal is subject to Pavlovian conditioning, the method of repeatedly pairing one stimulus with another until, eventually, the first triggers an expectation of the second. Unlike men, who are usually sexually oriented solely toward men or women, and whose sexuality is essentially fixed from puberty on, a decade of research by University of Utah psychologist Lisa Diamond and others demonstrates women have greater "erotic plasticity.

Has anyone made you feel like you had a choice and made you think, how to stop being gay?

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Other experiments suggest similar effects can occur in rats. As Beckstead noted, "Our best efforts may not be in trying to change possibly immutable aspects of sexuality but in trying to reduce the misunderstanding, discrimination, and hostility that exist within non-heterosexuals and their social situations.

2. Navigating the complexities of sexual orientation can be a challenging and often isolating experience. Their erotic plasticity may explain why women with same-sex predispositions report better success adjusting to heterosexual lifestyles than gay men do.

The opposite camp argues that gays are "born that way," and thus that sexual reorientation therapy is ineffective, as well as cruel and demoralizing. For many in the LGBTQ+ community, the struggle to accept themselves for who they are is a daily battle.

By conditioning the animals to prefer mates of their non-preferred sex, and then conditioning them to revert back, the researchers showed that the animals' sexual preferences were somewhat fluid. Religious fundamentalists who believe homosexuality is a matter of choice consider it obvious that gay people can reverse their decisions.

Stop Calling Your Homosexuality an "Alternative. While the latter perspective hits closer to the mark, the science of sexuality supports a more measured stance. The influence of genes can't be altered, but what about the other factors?