Turning straight gay
by Fred Penzel, PhD
This article was initially published in the Winter edition of the OCD Newsletter.
OCD, as we know, is largely about experiencing severe and unrelenting doubt. It can cause you to doubt even the most basic things about yourself – even your sexual orientation. A study published in the Journal of Sex Research found that among a group of college students, 84% reported the occurrence of sexual intrusive thoughts (Byers, et al. ). In request to have doubts about one’s sexual identity, a sufferer depend on not ever have had a homo- or heterosexual experience, or any type of sexual trial at all. I have observed this symptom in young children, adolescents, and adults as well. Interestingly Swedo, et al., , set up that approximately 4% of children with OCD experience obsessions concerned with forbidden aggressive or perverse sexual thoughts.
Although doubts about one’s own sexual identity might sound pretty straightforward as a symptom, there are actually a number of variations. The most clear form is where a sufferer experiences the thought that they mig
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Straight Gay
Looks like bromance, actually romance.
Steve:But how? You're the biggest fratboy dudebro I've ever met. You speak things like "broseph" and "chillax", you're crude, you're FAT! How can you be gay?
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Originally treated as a subversion of the standard gay stereotypes, the Straight Gay is a homosexual male or female character who has no camp mannerisms, Butch Lesbian tendencies, or obviously "gay" affectations.
In the earliest cases, Straight Gays were mostly there for farcical reasons: perhaps as a misunderstanding in which a straight character ends up unwittingly inviting himself out on a "date" with a 'stealthy' same-sex attracted man, or in which a homophobic character espouses his views to a stranger, only to identify out that the person he's talking to is gay. Currently, the Linear Gay is Truth in Television, less of a narrative device than a character type. When still used as a plot point, it may authorize other characters to realistically mi