No, Rachel Alexander, You Still Can’t Change Your Sexual Orientation

“Journal of Human Sexuality Study Finds Sexuality Fluidity Exploration Can Change Attraction,” ran Rachel Alexander’s 10/11/2021 column for the conservative website Townhall. While promoting her article on Twitter on the same day, she wrote:

Here’s an interesting new study that I wrote about. Fascinating new development for LGBT, and it’s all about CHOICE, which is why LGBT is more at home on the right.

Here is how she describes the study in her column:

A new study published in the Journal of Human Sexuality examined 75 adult males who reported same-sex attractions and wanted to explore their sexual attraction fluidity.

So the study contained no control group, nor was it placebo controlled. The study just took a group of people who wanted to change their sexual orientation, told them what the methods used would change their sexual orientation, and then had them conform that what happened did in fact change their sexual orientation.

For that matter, what does “reported same-sex attractions” mean? Did these men report that they were fully homosexual, or did they claim to be some form of bisexual or pansexual? Obviously someone who is not exclusively homosexual — unless they are asexual — is going to feel sexual attraction towards…