• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Is Homosexuality a illness? And how to heal?

ether-ore

Active Member
bisexual is another way of saying i want to be no-sexual.

No-sexual (aka celibacy) would be (is) my choice... sex is over rated anyway. being sexual is like being a crack addict... always looking for the next fix. I like my peace of mind.
 

JoStories

Well-Known Member
bisexual is another way of saying i want to be no-sexual.
Sigh...insults? Well, that really doesn't surprise me coming from someone who bases his opinions on a movie character. I would try to explain what bisexual means but you would just insult some more. I wish you peace.
 

JoStories

Well-Known Member
No-sexual (aka celibacy) would be (is) my choice... sex is over rated anyway. being sexual is like being a crack addict... always looking for the next fix. I like my peace of mind.
Sex, at least for me, was a wonderful expression of the love I felt for my partner. It was not about me but about her. But since she has died, I am celibate. I remain so in the memory of her as she was my soul mate. I can only hope that some people have the kind of relationship that we did and know what truly making love means.
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
TRUE incompatible also means abnormal; out of nature and so on.
Nope.

Full Definition of INCOMPATIBLE
1: incapable of being held by one person at one time —used of offices that make conflicting demands on the holder
2: not compatible: as

a : incapable of association or harmonious coexistence <incompatible colors>

b : unsuitable for use together because of undesirable chemical or physiological effects<incompatible drugs>

c : not both true <incompatible propositions>

d : incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
 

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
For me, a cure would be, if the patient is able to have sex with the opposite gender. To remove the homosexual urges would be more of a bonus. Afaik, most of the "healed gays" are able to have sex with the opposite gender now, regardless of other urges.


Believe me, there are scientific areas, where I actually know what I am talking about. Homosexuality is not one of them, and I said it in my first sentence. You can generelise all Bahais and muslims from my post, if you want. I give you the advice to not generelise people based on their beliefs, and to not call a whole group of people stupid, if one member says something, that you regard as stupid. There are Bahais and even Muslims (!! :O) who know more about homosexuality, then you do.



And I wrote Bahai into my profile to become popular... :(



If homosexuals want to manage the condition, they surely would be happy, if science helped them.



Ex Gay therapy being flawed is no proof, that there can't be a better one. 100 years ago, schitzophrenia therapy was flawed and dangerous. I bet, there was a time in science when everyone thought, that schitzophrenia is incurable. Today, patients can live an almost normal life.



I am not saying that we should forcefully convert homosexuals. But some people want to change, they want kids on their own. For me, it would be a handicap, if I was not able to love a woman and have kids with her. I would appreciate, if there was a cure, that would enable for me to be sexually attracted to women.

Do you think you can be "cured" to become gay, if you really wanted?

Ciao

- viole
 

ether-ore

Active Member
The fact that you regard having any sex at all as having an addiction demonstrates that you have an extremely negative (some may say unnatural) attitude towards sex.

No, I'm just not married (to a woman), so, I see being celibate as incumbent on me in order to keep God's standards.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
the best evidence is stephenie robinson, a man years ago who became a woman because the doctor told him that his libido was uncontrollable lust because he was meant to be a woman. gays have uncontrollable lust. hence they are becoming women with the help of religion who knock out the gays before injecting them with trans hormones.

they are less accepted because they do not know how to be men with lust anymore. witness in san francisco, there is so little cruising that we do not remember it anymore.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/transgend...oming-woman-wasnt-even-091427373.html#aVtdiOK

We've been over this before. Her case is an extreme outlier, and at no point was changing her gender actually recommended.
Am I understanding you correctly? Men are becoming women in order to control lust?
Don't give it much thought. It boggles my mind as to how any doctor signed off on her transition, as it was something she never planned on or wanted, her doctor didn't recommend it, yet she did it anyways. If you read the story, the doctors did not say she had to become a woman to control her lust, there were other psychological disorders, and it cannot be stated enough that gender-transition was not recommended. Hormone therapy was recommended to control what is claimed to uncontrollable sexual urges, but a full gender change was not.
changing gender is the best solution for no solution to be gay.
You're going to have to go to Iran to find people that will agree with you, because that is a horrible solution. A gay man, for example, identifies as a man, so why would he want to become a woman? Being in the body of the wrong sex is a terrible and horrible experience. And in places that practice modern psychology and psychiatry, you won't find any doctor who is considered qualified to work with transsexual clients who will endorse a gender-change because the client doesn't want to be gay.
 

Guitar's Cry

Disciple of Pan
not meaningless. in taoist philosophy, labels have a purpose: to help people be themselves.

"The sage does not establish [forms] and names in order to impose restraints on the people. Nor does he create promotions and honors in order to cull and discard the unworthy. He enhances the natural state of the myriad folk but does not serve as the starting point for them. "

Quoting Wang Bi's commentary to TaoTeChing ch. 26 in Lynn, Classic Of The Way And Virtue, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, c. 2004, p. 101.

That all depends on the style of Taoist philosophy. The defined and undefined are all a part of the Tao. What is, is.
 

chevron1

Active Member
We've been over this before. Her case is an extreme outlier, and at no point was changing her gender actually recommended.

Don't give it much thought. It boggles my mind as to how any doctor signed off on her transition, as it was something she never planned on or wanted, her doctor didn't recommend it, yet she did it anyways.

not true. this is an excerpt from her book "a light in the dark", pp. 35-6:

"From what you have told me, I find you to be a classic transsexual." Finally. A diagnosis. A diagnosis I had never heard of, but a diagnosis nonetheless. Mr Raymond continued, "There are some options open to you and whatever you select as appropriate treatment, I must be there to supervise. Option one is aversion therapy.... We can give you a substance to make you vomit while showing you pictures of yourself dressed in female clothes." "Option two... will give you an electric shock...." "Option three is brain surgery."
 
Last edited:

chevron1

Active Member
That all depends on the style of Taoist philosophy. The defined and undefined are all a part of the Tao. What is, is.

true. metaphysical taoism (because wang bi was a founder of the metaphysical school) was state religion that de-emphasized the gods and emphasized rational analysis of the classical texts as metaphysical textbooks, the precursor of science textbooks.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
not true. this is an excerpt from her book "a light in the dark", pp. 35-6:
Not one of those options are a gender change. Hormone therapy, though an early step in most treatment plans for transsexuals, does not necessitate gender change, nor is it considered, in and of itself, a gender change. It really makes me wonder how it happened, and what doctors signed off on it, because she herself said she never felt like a woman, never had any plans to live as a woman, and did not have any desires to transition.
Her case is an extreme outlier that does not reflect the experience of those with gender dysphoria, nor should it be looked upon as a basis for educating oneself about the condition. If you want a good general overview of the condition and treatment, read the WPATH Standards of Care.
http://www.wpath.org/uploaded_files/140/files/Standards of Care, V7 Full Book.pdf
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
No-sexual (aka celibacy) would be (is) my choice... sex is over rated anyway. being sexual is like being a crack addict... always looking for the next fix. I like my peace of mind.
lol. Are you serious with this? Do you actually think that anyone who is sexually active is addicted to sex and always looking for their "next fix"? I would suggest giving it a try, because your view on the subject is obviously based on ignorance. To most sexually active people, it isn't a first priority or anything close to that. It's great, don't get me wrong, but it is also physically healthy, as long as it is done safely. I wouldn't judge others on something you obviously know absolutely nothing about.
 

chevron1

Active Member
Not one of those options are a gender change. Hormone therapy, though an early step in most treatment plans for transsexuals, does not necessitate gender change, nor is it considered, in and of itself, a gender change.

again, her doctor said he was a "classic transsexual". for some, hormone therapy IS a gender change. you are being too specific, too close to a very very strict definition. the doctor is in to make gays into women for the love of god.
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
No, I'm just not married (to a woman), so, I see being celibate as incumbent on me in order to keep God's standards.
So, if you do intend to get married one day, wouldn't you want to know whether you had good sexual chemistry? I think this is a must, but I'd like to hear your reasoning (beyond what is claimed in the Bible, of course) for not thinking this is a good idea.
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
again, her doctor said he was a "classic transsexual". for some, hormone therapy IS a gender change. you are being too specific, too close to a very very strict definition. the doctor is in to make gays into women for the love of god.
This makes no sense, though. Why would a doctor want to change the way that God made an individual for the love of God? If God made them a woman, wouldn't that be God's intention?
 

chevron1

Active Member
This makes no sense, though. Why would a doctor want to change the way that God made an individual for the love of God? If God made them a woman, wouldn't that be God's intention?

that's catholic teaching, not all christians think like that. besides, if you were the parent of a gay son and wanted him to have children in the traditional way, you might authorize intervention to make him transgender in mind at least so that he could still have children.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
again, her doctor said he was a "classic transsexual". for some, hormone therapy IS a gender change. you are being too specific, too close to a very very strict definition. the doctor is in to make gays into women for the love of god.
According to her, she had no desires to transition. She never considered living as a woman. She did not consider herself a woman prior to her doctor saying "hormones or brain surgery." That is not a "classic transsexual,"
In regards to education about gender dysphoria, it's a very poor case to utilize. How a doctor made the step from recommending hormones to control an uncontrollable sex drive to "classic transsexual" is beyond me, especially when she had not expressed any cross gender thoughts or desires up to that point.
And doctor who makes gays into women is a hack-job of a doctor, because sexual orientation and gender identity are not the same things, and they are not inherently related (though there is some overlap).
As I said, if you want information, read the Standards of Care because those are psychologists and psychiatrists who work with transsexuals, transgenders, and gender non-conforming people. No where do they suggest that someone who is homosexual undergo a sex-change procedure.
 

gsa

Well-Known Member
No-sexual (aka celibacy) would be (is) my choice... sex is over rated anyway. being sexual is like being a crack addict... always looking for the next fix. I like my peace of mind.

This is bizarre. Having sex is like crack addiction? This would suggest that you have either never tried sex (and presumably not cocaine base either), or, if you have, that your experience with sexual addiction is well outside the normal parameters for human beings.
 
Top