TRL
I think it should be available. As well as wow what an interesting Movie.
This drug woulde get more publicity than Nicloes Australia but be a much bigger sucess.
Why not make it available for youth wanting to change indeed.
Might be a good weapon for the UN as well instead of sending off billions to world aid.
That ought to get some bites at least.
merry Christmass to all

Hey, you’re onto something very interesting there CJ. THAT’S what we really need; a compulsory drug that would cement everyone’s primary sexual orientation and do away with bisexuality, heterosexuals choosing to be gay and homosexuals who feel obligated by religion and society to be straight!

A lot of religious fundamentalists would then turn gay, or I should say, come out of the closet and show their true colours.

Just imagine that! It would lead to a much more liberal outlook on sexuality from the stodgy old Church. Hopefully that greater liberalism would spread to all manner of other things.

Oh yes. Bring it on !! !!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UUei5-fKXMQ

Foxy mentioned plastic surgery which was the first comparable thing which came to mind thinking about this. Plastic surgery is used to fix something that's wrong in some cases, and as an optional accessory in others. Would this imaginary drug be offered as a cure or a lifestyle choice?

Would people have to continue taking it to continue the effect, or would they revert if they stopped taking it?

Take the depressed teenager example. What if they took the drug and ended up even more miserable? Do we seriously think that their social situation would improve? Wouldn't they still be considered a freak?

Dear TRTL,

It would be interesting to conduct a poll
amongst the gay community on this topic.

I agree with you, the drug should be made
available to those that want to change their
sexual orientation. Again, under the usual
conditions that medical procedures such as this
require, such as doctoral referrals, counseling,
et cetera.

I think it is merely a question
of time before scientific innovations will make
this choice a reality.

How will society cope?
I guess as it has done historically with each
new scientific/medical discovery.
Learning to adapt with each change, as it
occurs...

I’d be against it, basically because it enables shame about being gay… As hard as it could be to be so, specially in a place where it’s unacceptable… I think one should be and accept themselves.

Most people have a few hard tough hurdles in their life and are in someway or another part of a minority…

There would just be *easy way out* to not be bullied for being gay, I would wonder if it might not totally fry a persons mind to have their sexuality adjusted? if not sexually... morally, emotionally or in any other modes of being...

We would also have anti & pro gay groups and beliefs creating *certain sexed communities* either way.

TRTL,

It’s a cool question, Is it possible this might be case of accepting something just because it is possible, Similar to the *tolerance for tolerance* ?

One thing I was thinking of in kinda the same area was should people have the right to dictate who gets their organs if they are organ donors, from personal friends and enemies to people of this lifestyle or that belief can or can’t have my heart or liver etc?

Oddly here I will go the opposite and say yes we should have the right to choose

Dear TRTL,

I think that we should point out that
it will only be a minority who will want to
change their sexual orientation.
Most people are happy with the orientation
that they have.

A change in our society's attitudes towards
sexual preferences (through education, and support)
would go a long way
towards creating a healthier outlook for everybody.