The OP isn’t asking what would change someone’s orientation - it recognises that you can’t do that - it’s asking under what circumstances would you consider trying acts or behaviours that you’re not naturally inclined to. I don’t think that’s too much of a stretch to get your head around.
To Illuminatiprimus:
Yes, Dear, I KNOW that. And I’m saying it would be easier to turn the fat, middle-aged, nearly deaf woman that I am into a black (male) basketball plalyer.
Whatever triggering event or special circumstance which would enable me to play for say, the Lakers, it would take something of equal or greater magnitude to “turn” me gay.
I’m not gonna plan for any Nike endorsements soon.
Because it AIN’T gonna happen. Either one.
~VOW
In my case? Probably a gun to the side of head followed by a command to eat pussy or die. I can’t imagine ever willingly participating in homosexual sex.
Ha, I’ve been asked that, and more than once. “How can you be so little?” (I’m not that short, it’s just that the askers have been that tall). A different, tall friend said that the proper response to people remarking on one’s height in either direction is “thanks, I practice.” He’s right, that does baffle people into never saying it again.
But back on topic, I think you’re probably right about it being something you’re born with the wiring for. Maybe not absolute and immutable, but an inborn tendency that has a high likelihood of manifesting.
I didn’t even know there was such a thing as porn. I had to use fashion ads from the newspaper. Not even underwear ads, just anything that had a man’s face on it. Then I learned how to draw my own porn.
Perhaps some kind of experimental drug/chemical treatment could do it. I’m not aware than anyone’s trying to develop one, though.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have gay and straight pills?
I know, some of your art actually ended in my comic book porn collection ;).
YEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!
If there is someone I wouldn’t have had sex or fooled around with it’s my childhood same-sex friends! It would be incest! (No, we’re not related, but the way we went into and out of each other’s houses and visited with each other’s grandparents, we might have been; there were people who genuinely thought that BFF and I were fraternal twins; watching me argue with her brother or her take care of my brothers reinforced the mistake).
That’s what their male cousins were for, you know. And classmates’ big brothers. And other people nobody would have mistaken for my relatives, much less for my sister - and all of them from my gender of attraction, which is the one I don’t belong to.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of women I’ve found physically attractive in an I’d-hit-that kind of way and have fingers and the thumb left. The one I got to know as a person was an out-and-out “me first” bitch, which kills any emotional interest on my part. There have been female friends I would have been willing to fool around with (up to third base, I think would be the term) if they’d wanted to but not so much as to be the one to propose it. With my current circumstances, it would take something very radical - and knowing the width of my contrary vein, someone holding a gun to my brother’s temple and saying “ok, lick 'er” might produce a “no”, on grounds of “you can’t make me”. They’d have to be threatening the Nephews…
Well, I’m aware of the male cousins thing, but for me it is incredibly grosser to try it out with your own cousins (Im talking all first sexual experiences here, not purely same sex) than with childhood friends.
That said, what I have written, coupled with clairobscur’s comment might make it sound like I think everybody has done that. I dont think so, nor that it is even a majority, but in my mind, I’d say a good ten to twenty per cent of people did (I uderstand it might totally vary if you’re a female but I never discussed this kind of subject with any of my GFs).
The male cousins of my friends, not mine. Well, some of my own male cousins were involved in hookups with my female friends, but you know, we didn’t do our own relatives - only each other’s.
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What if you’ve always been a fly fishing enthusiast and discover late in life that you actually prefer to do it wearing assless chaps instead of those big rubber boots?
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Then you’re an exhibitionist 
A marriage proposal from a 98-year old billionaire with no living relatives.
That’s a good one! I’d experiment with my own drug cocktail to make it more pleasant for me.
“More pleasant” implies that there’s a degree of pleasantness there to begin with. :eek:
The billion dollar cushion is the first pleasant part.
I could be forcibly made to perform same-sex act via convincing threats to my family or something like that, and even then it’d be less than 100% sure.
Gay, as in “that guy is hot”: nothing.
Yes, maybe it’s just you. I’m gay, and I never fooled around with any of my friends (not that I didn’t want to).
I’m straight, married male. Never had any MM sexual contact at all. I have been known to watch MM gay porn - maybe one of every couple hundred times I’ve watched porn, it’s been MM gay. I’m not at all interested in a threesome, but if I found myself in one, I’d probably suck a dick. The likelihood of that situation actually happening is essentially zero, and I really like women. I can’t see a one-on-one sexual encounter with another man in my future.
Joe
Gay guy here. I fooled around with women in college. It wouldn’t be terribly hard to get me to fool around with or have sex with women, as long as I was single. I would never want to be exclusive though, unless there was no way a man could ever be in the picture again.