>> Can sexuality feelings change over the years from one sex to the other?
I've always thought of gay/straight as a continuum. Most of us are clustered at one end or the other but we're distributed across the whole range. Given that people generally at one end have been known to 'dabble' at the other I guess the biology around erections etc functions OK. Even if it doesn't there are means of achieving insemination without penetration....
I've no idea where Phillip Schofield sits on the spectrum but he's far from alone in managing to live what gives every impression of being a straight family life only to 'come out' later in life. I don't think Crispin Blunt is the only MP to have done so - or even the only Conservative* MP!!.
As a man roughly same age as Schofield, I'd have had a very tough time being an out gay in suburban Leeds. He's a northener too and I'm pretty sure Oldham was no different. The first time I met an openly gay man was the day I started my first job in London. I'd be pretty sure that at time (1979) his being out gay would have affected his career. He was rumoured to be into some fairly extreme practices (and may subsequently have died of AIDS) but it'd have been little different if he'd live quietly and monogamously with a 'nice' boyfriend.
At the time it was still pretty much a requirement that one had to be married to be selected for the judiciary. The assumption apparently was that if you were still single at the age where you might aspire to being a judge (45-50?) and still single you might be gay. And as any fule kno gay men are susceptible to blackmail.
It's hardly surprising that people decided a quiet life looking normal was only option.
*That observation is ironic and strictly not political.
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