Lex said:
There are a lot of different ways you could have asked this without using the term cure. If you could not think of a term or phrase, then I suggest that you should not start the poll.
Most people who are different feel so only when reminded in someway that they are different. Even with all the self-hatred in the world, its never going to garner kind responses to ask people to change something so fundamentally connected to their identity. It implies that they hate themselves.
What people who are different often want is for the ignorance and bigotry directed at those who are different to go away. Nothing more.
Well said!
I find the use of the word 'cure' in this context offensive, and I find it both surprising and sad that a predominantly gay person could want to ask this question at all.
For some, and especially in the US, there are gay people that live with the constant pressure from family and peers, mostly in a religious context, to 'cure' their gayness through prayer and 'de-conditioning' and what have you.
For those that cannot withstand that pressure the added self-loathing and the loss of happiness is very real.
I am certainly not going to treat this subject like some kind of 'party game'!
And no, I have never wanted to change my preference for men - not when I was younger and not now.
And I will not participate in this poll.
I think you should rather focus on cultivating some real dignity and pride in who you are, kank84!