There are hundreds of books on how to control what one eats. Everyone assumes that we can control the most basic human desire for food, for the purpose of improved health and self-regulation.
Why is sexual desire assumed to be completely the opposite?
Because then they can’t claim they were born that way. They don’t want their lifestyle to be seen as a perversion/mental disorder as it was years ago. Here is some interesting information about how homosexuality was “normalized” by the APA. http://www.narth.com/docs/normalization.html
Excerpt:”Gay activist groups believed that prejudice against homosexuals could be extinguished only if, as homosexuals, they were accepted as normal. “They claimed that homosexuality is a preference, an orientation, a propensity; that it is neither a defect, a disturbance, a sickness, nor a malfunction of any sort.” To promote this aim, Dr. Bieber reports, “Gay activists impugned the motives and ridiculed the work of those psychiatrists who asserted that homosexuality is other than normal.”