Is it possible for your sexuality to change?

[Mortal Coil]

Please, read all of this before answering. I don't mean like being unsure and changing the label you give yourself, the way some gay people begin by calling themselves bi. I mean, after a traumatic event, can one go from being straight to asexual? I'm still emotionally attracted to people but since a certain event I haven't had any sexual thoughts or feelings.

[Harley Quinn]

I think that's possible, yes. Does it happen to a lot of people? No. Sexuality is something fluid and it can change due to certain situations that happen in your life. However, it may just be for now and in a few years you'll develop those feelings back, but you might not.

[Montesquieu15]

I think that's possible, yes. Does it happen to a lot of people? No. Sexuality is something fluid and it can change due to certain situations that happen in your life. However, it may just be for now and in a few years you'll develop those feelings back, but you might not.

Yah, I agree. I feel compared with genetics, various environmental factors which we usually have no control over play a larger role in shaping our sexuality. I am gay btw, so this isn't coming from some biased opinion. I've thought about it a lot.

[Akasuki]

It's very much possible since it's in our body. Just like how our bodies change, our sexuality can change too. I think that traumatic events can change your sexuality if you have the gene.
I believe that I'm only lesbian because all of the male figures in my life abused me ( specifically my father and uncle ) when I was younger, so it set off something in my brain that made me turn out to be gay.

[Wayne92]

Very much so, especially in cases of sexual trauma. Since trauma, mainly in children, can cause emotional distancing and other behavioral problems, the same can happen for ones sexuality. I was physically, psychologically and sexual abused by my step dad and I have problems with other males. Not that I was once gay and became "homophobic" for the lack of a better term, but just more distant toward them as a whole.

But to be more on topic, trauma does cause the decrease or increase of ones sex drive, I myself suffer from the latter of the two but I know people who suffer from the first.