A Reason for Being Gay

[pdq1]

Tonight at 9pm on BBC Channel 3 a 21 year old guy says that after having a stroke he woke up to find his sexuality had changed. Before the stroke he was an avid rugby playing hetrosexual but that changed overnight to becoming gay and the loss of all his rugby pals.

If the brain is capable of being modified by rearranging the circuitry where does that point to in future research?

[daffy654]

In my opinion this man was always gay but the stroke gave him an excuse to be open about it.

[sandyRoe]

Can a chap not be both gay and a rugger bu@@er?

[ummmm]

Yeah...give them all electric shocks and hope it rearranges their brains!!!

Seriously...maybe he was suppressed. The stroke might have changed his inhibitions.

Way more likely than suddenly becoming gay..

[rowanwitch]

disinhibition is not uncommon after a stroke...add that to the psychological effects of a life threatening illness and a change of life is not totally unexpected...

[sp1814]

pdq1

As with the other respondents to this thread, I think we'd be jumping ahead of ourselves if we took this chap's word for it that he had no sexual feelings for men prior to the accident.

It may be that in his subconscious, after the accident, he thought, "I could've died?.why bother wasting my life being something that I'm not?"

Incidentally, I find the whole insinuation that the opposite of gay is 'manly rugby player' quite bizarre - especially as both groups spend large amounts of time in the company of naked men, grabbing balls.

[ummmm]

There is NOT a cure for being gay.

[anneasquith]

hes very young to be having a " stroke "

[Noraq]

There's no cure for being a ''Rugger Bugger'' either lol

[ummmm]

It happens Anne...

Two footballers having heart attacks.....bit young for that!!!

[sunny-dave]

I suppose being a rugger bugger gay he wouldn't so much "come out of the closet" as "mistake it for the ensuite, pee in the corner of it and kick his way out through the back" ... possibly

[mickrog]

depends on what it was he stroked maybe

[anneasquith]

its quite a drastic way. to come out!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[mccfluff]

i donrt think strokes are age restrictive

[EvianBaby]

You don't believe he had a stoke Anne?

[anneasquith]

obviously, i dont know, but the programme may be interesting.

[rowanwitch]

strokes happen to newborns... its an equal opportunities problem

[EvianBaby]

Anne, when my Dad had a stroke they carried out endless tests on him for days and then continuin the months after.

You'd have to be a pretty special person to fool all those doctors and their testing.

[RATTER15]

Why not wait and see what is in the programme, I think we may all be better informed!

[Hopkirk]

A stroke at 21?

This story doesn't ring true.