Is it possible for a person whose born straight to become gay as a result of.........?

I can say that I have witnessed such a thing. Though I have heard some people that abuse can influence ones sexual development. Personally I don't buy that theory. I think it is more influenced by people naturally bisexual nature which is normally suppressed Hetronormative culture. The event(s) would cause the individual to break with social norms and open to same gender experience. As Kinsey observed some people are more likely to gravitate to their own gender than others. I personally as a bisexual male am attracted to females, but find myself unable to sustain long term romantic relationships with them.

People can choose who they enter into romantic relationships with, for whatever reason, but the natural physical attraction that determine peoples sexual orientation can't be changed. To forgo natural romantic desires this way, is practically unheard of. I think that battered heterosexual women's feelings of physical attraction to men, can be replaced with fear or disgust. The only people that I have heard of that become so bitter, that they seek out homosexual relationships, are women that have been in abusive heterosexual relationships. If two women were to fall in love under these circumstances, it would be a cerebral kind of love (not something heterosexual men would be capable of, because they're not battered women).

I just read the additional details that you added, and it sounds to me that those people that you know were already gay or at least bi. Personally, I've known people that were not able to accept their sexuality until later in life. Although, I didn't see any change in their personality because I didn't know them while they were still in the closet. What I haven't ever seen, is a man that was traumatized into becoming gay. I am gay and I have many, many gay friends and that is not something I have ever come across. I would be curious to listen to what someone that was traumatized into becoming gay had to say. I think you'll probably find that those people that you've seen this happen to, are not very common at all (at least not for those of us that don't work in your same field). You should probably try and ask them what made them this way, or ask the next one that you meet. Then post their answers for me to read, because I would be curious to know what they had to say.

I know of no one who has had this happen to them.

I think of it this way....Do you yourself think you could ever be gay and like men as much as you like women if, let's say, the love of your life turned you down? Think about it. Do you really think that men would instantaneously become appealing to you just because you didn't have a good experience with a woman? I know that I couldn't begin liking women just because I've had a bad experience with another guy. I went through a BITTER break up a few months ago with my bf. Did I turn to girls? No. I still don't find them sexually pleasing.

I'm sure there are people who force themselves to like another gender just because they're fed up with the opposite sex. However, these relationships will not last because their heart will not feel satisfied.

You cannot change your sexual orientation. It is determined in the womb.

From what I've read and have heard on topics regarding to 'gay' people, your born that way.

If you've had bad personal experiances with the opposite sex and you go after your own gender, then, I would say your bi-sexual.

Bi-sexual or just an explorer...which means the same thing.....

If your gay, I do believe it's something your born with.

Sexuality is a lot more fluid than we acknowledge in todays society.

Regardless of any negative experiances a person who has "always been straight" can "turn" when they meet the right person. However this rather than being a huge transformation can just be they were unaware of their "bi-ness" previously.

Pansexuality describes the love of a person regardless of gender.

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The heart is a lonely hunter.

We have divided relationships into three types: homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual.

At best you are a bisexual. At worse a heterosexual. Your sex perference is either generic or environmental. In any case, your heart (a place for emotions) is a lonely hunter and you are what you are. The only problem is you don't know and we can't tell you.

No one can simply "turn gay." Remember no one is one-hundred percent gay or one-hundred percent straight. I am sure personal experience may contribute to one's sexuality but the question is a lot more complex than simply determining if personal experience, whether a relationship or whichever.