Rotoscope wrote:Alright, I'm officially curious about this file now. Due to how I see my life in the future being with a woman, I'm not likely to actually listen(though it's not impossible), but I still find the idea of such a profound change, with all the connotations of 'violation', and helplessness in the face of being so profoundly psychologically changed really exciting, and I keep coming back to this thread.
A couple of quick questions for people who've used this:
1 - Is it one of those cases where you sort of have to be interested in men somewhat already to have the file work?
I don't think so. I wasn't, not in male bodies, anyway (I could be turned on by guys doing some fetish stuff). If I saw a couple of guys on the street holding hands it grossed me out. I'd had drunken gay sex as a teen but it was purely mechanical, the boy who had initiated didn't turn me on. And some guys have turned who were even straighter than me.
2 - Is the file certain to eliminate attraction to women? (It seems strange to me that my attraction to women could ever be eliminated, given how firmly implanted it is, though admittedly that's the main thing that draws me to the file in the first place)
it seems to be the last thing to go. Even today, five years later, I sometimes get a flash when I see a hot picture of a woman but then my brain remembers that I'm not supposed to be turned on anymore and it goes away. Mostly now when I see straight couples it grosses me out the way gay couples used to.
3 - How likely am I to regret it if I do break down and listen?
You'll end up loving it. There have been a few regrets, including me (since I wanted to be bi rather than gay and didn't know that I would be so trapped), but the two of us who did have trouble ended up cool with it in the end (he ended up bi, I ended up gay). i don't know of anyone who's been unhappy in the long run.
This assumes though that it won't mess up your personal life, if you have an SO you have to consider that both from your perspective and hers.
But being gay is great. The sex is better and so are the relationships, there was a study recently that found that gay people were happier in their relationships than straight ones.