Comments for What makes someone gay and can people change orientation? at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:19:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-26387 Dr. Throckmorton - you are well aware that you have misrepresented the numbers here, that the incidence of change from gay to straight is higher than you've asserted. Your statement that orientation is quite durable is also false, and you surely know this, it's quite prevalent in the literature. We could start with Dr. Spitzer, the man who changed the definition of homosexuality in the APA - but you know that too, and his study which showed permanent change to be more common than previously believed. You are not being honest with us Sir. And you know it. - Wally Moran Sun, 09 May 2010 01:16:40 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23728 Konstantin, how about making some specific rebuttals on Throckmorton's piece instead of trotting out that tired old "gay = have sex w/anything" theory? - Chuck Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:15:57 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23653 Warren, your rant is indeed confusing. .. and yes you are in error. I too sorry for you! - Konstantin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:10:32 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23651 Wow, perverts on the rise! Why discriminate against pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and necrophilia? Don't be haters people. We need true diversity. Donkeys deserve love as much as homosexuals do. Necrophilia does not harm anyone, and how does it concerns you. by the way??? Stop bigotry!! Go necrophilia!!! - Konstantin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:06:48 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23546 I love the constant hypocrasy of supposedly 'protecting' children even though any sort of law like this is going to cause so much internal torment and self-loathing in so many children who are already having to deal with the fact that they might be gay, in a country that already is so intolerant of such things. - Tim Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:17:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23498 Thanks for thie article. I just want to add that some different explanations have been raised regarding the reason fot the higher incidence rate of sexual abuse among gay people. The most interesting is the one that reversed the usual causality in so that instead of assuming that sexual traume "caused" homosexuality, we are now viewing the homosexuality present at a young age as a risk factor for suffering from sexual abuse. It might be that the young child who feels or behaves differently due to factors relating to homoseuality is the one who is more socially marginal and as such an easier target for those pedophiles who lurk exactly for these lonely/attention-seeking children. - Dr. Offer Maurer Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:24:57 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/component/content/106-myblog/2379-what-makes-someone-gay-and-can-people-change-orientation#comment-23438 Thanks to Uganda Talks for posting this column. There is one correction that I need to post. In the section describing the Exodus International study, I wrote: Just over 20% of subjects remaining in the study reported some degree of movement from straight to gay but most did not. However, that sentence should read instead: Just over 20% of subjects remaining in the study reported some degree of movement from being attracted to the same sex toward developing attractions to the opposite sex, but most did not. I am very sorry for any confusion caused by the error. - Warren Throckmorton Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:39:53 +0100