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Old Jan 28, 2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by PAYNE1 View Post
Wow! I've never heard people couldn't change these behaviors....Not to be a pain, but I think that needs to be confirmed. Where would I find resources on that? Of course, that's what the people in that group Dr. Skipper mentioned would believe.

I did hear that people who are into these things might have been sexually abused as children.
I do not like Thai or Vietnamese food. Lots of Thai and Vietnamese restaurants near me and I cannot make use of them. Why? No reason. But I can't change my taste. These restaurants are very popular, so I am in the minority not going to them.

I imagine she cannot change her taste either. And she is in the minority, too.

I imagine she just needs to learn to be careful and not take great risks while pursuing her interests. But I doubt she can or should even try to change the underlying interests. After all, before American psych authorities stopped treating homosexuality as a treatable aberration (I believe in the early 1970s), people wanted homosexuals to change their behaviors or tried to "cure them", but we do not do it anymore, by and large. I imagine that it is the same thing - OP is just the way she is.