Quit being gay
Can Gay People Just Utter No?
March 3 -- Are you gay? Do you want to be straight? Today a number of groups tell people it's possible to stop creature gay, saying that through therapy and prayer, God can help people convert their sexual preference.
Some groups offer advice such as telling gay people to inhale ammonia when they have homosexual thoughts. Programs have advised same-sex attracted men to play sports and lesbian women to wear makeup. Jack Pantaleo went to one of these groups. He says it taught him things like how to cross his legs in a manly way: "On occasions it was okay to cross ankle over ankle," he explains, "But a real man takes his ankle and puts it over his other knee."
'Like Puberty at Twenty-Five'
There are lots of testimonials from people who say this type of therapy works. Alan Chambers says he's been straight now for 11 years. He's on the board of Exodus, which is the biggest network of groups claiming to help people turn into, "ex-gay." Chambers says knowledge to be straight was "like puberty at age " He just ch
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Can People Stop Entity Gay?
To polarize a crowd, transport up sexual reorientation. Religious fundamentalists who believe homosexuality is a matter of choice consider it obvious that same-sex attracted people can contrary their decisions. The opposite camp argues that gays are "born that way," and thus that sexual reorientation therapy is ineffective, as well as mean and demoralizing.
While the latter perspective hits closer to the highlight, the science of sexuality supports a more measured stance. There are no verified cases of formerly gay people completely ridding themselves of same-sex attraction, but it does appear possible for some people who are predisposed to same-sex attraction to expand their sexual repertoire — expand attractions for opposite-sex partners as adv, and even opt for the contrary sex exclusively.
"I think highly motivated people can change their conduct, and they can clearly change their label," said Heather Hoffmann, a professor of psychology who chairs the neuroscience program at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.
Hoffmann's research focuses on the way that experience
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In the s and s, many therapists offered aversion therapy of the kind featured in A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexuality. This typically committed showing patients pictures of naked men while giving them electric shocks or drugs to produce them vomit, and, once they could no longer bear it, showing them pictures of naked women or sending them out on a "date" with a young nurse. Needless to exclaim, these cruel and degrading methods proved entirely ineffective.
First published in , DSM-II (the second edition of the American classification of mental disorders, and a forerunner of DSM-5) still listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In this, the DSM followed in a long tradition in medicine and psychiatry, which in the nineteenth century appropriated homosexuality from the Church and, in what must have seemed like an élan of enlightenment, promoted it from sin to mental disorder.
In , the American Psychiatric Association (APA) asked all members at its convention to vote on whether they believed homosexuality to be a mental disorder. 5, psychiatrists voted