Changes

When Bailey was in grade three, he was introduced to sexual play, including streaking and oral copulation. The experience not only robbed him of his childhood innocence, but awakened in him a sense of sexual curiosity. Consequently, Bailey became preoccupied with images of male nudity and with taking more daring sexual risks with different boys. As he grew older, the sexual activities quickly became [[addiction|addictive]]. When he was a young man in the military, he continued to crave male intimacy and experience gripping [[same-sex attraction]]s. An intimate but non-sexual encounter with a military male friend whom he greatly admired eventually led to explicit homosexual behaviors.

When Bailey was in grade three, he was introduced to sexual play, including streaking and oral copulation. The experience not only robbed him of his childhood innocence, but awakened in him a sense of sexual curiosity. Consequently, Bailey became preoccupied with images of male nudity and with taking more daring sexual risks with different boys. As he grew older, the sexual activities quickly became [[addiction|addictive]]. When he was a young man in the military, he continued to crave male intimacy and experience gripping [[same-sex attraction]]s. An intimate but non-sexual encounter with a military male friend whom he greatly admired eventually led to explicit homosexual behaviors.

Looking back on his past, Bailey says he now sees that he has been brought out of what he calls the “[[sexual disorientation|sexual confusion]] of homosexual behaviors” to a sexual clarity in mind and heart. He has left behind what he calls the “self-defeating environment of my own, very negative self-image” and moved into an unshakable understanding of his value and self worth as a beloved child of God.

Looking back on his past, Bailey says he now sees that he has been brought out of what he calls the “[[sexual disorientation|sexual confusion]] of homosexual behaviors” to a sexual clarity in mind and heart. He has left behind what he calls the “self-defeating environment of my own, very negative self-image” and moved into an unshakable understanding of his value and self-worth as a beloved child of God.

==Sexual restoration==

==Sexual restoration==

When a person abandons their inward [[belief]] that it was [[homosexual behavior]]s that define them as a person, then they must set out to rediscover ''what'' it is that actually does define their [[personhood]]. They must learn to embrace and give those higher human ideals a greater value and meaning within their own [[character]] and existence, than they gave to the [[homosexual]] [[addiction]]s which they allowed to dominate their thinking and reasoning in the past.

When a person abandons their inward [[belief]] that it was [[homosexual behavior]]s that define them as a person, then they must set out to rediscover ''what'' it is that actually does define their [[personhood]]. They must learn to embrace and give those higher human ideals a greater value and meaning within their own [[character]] and existence, than they gave to the [[homosexual]] [[addiction]]s which they allowed to dominate their thinking and reasoning in the past.