Can gay person become straight
Long-suffering Spectator readers deserve a seasonal noun from yet another Remoaner diatribe from me. My last on this page, making the outrageous suggestion that the populace may sometimes be wrong, is now being brandished by online Leaver-readers of my Times column as proof that I am in fact a fascist; so there isn’t anywhere much to go from there.
Instead, I rotate to sex. There is little period left for me to write about sex as the thoughts of a septuagenarian on this subject (I spin 70 this year) may soon encounter only a shudder. But I own a theory which I have the audacity to consider important.
What follows is not written here for the first time, and much of it is neither original nor new; but on very few subjects have I ever been more sure I’m right, or more sure that future generations will see so, and wonder that it stared us in the face yet was not acknowledged. My firm faith is that in trying to categorise sex, sexuality and — yes — even gender, the late 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries have taken the medical and social sciences down a massive bl
Is It Possible to Systematically Turn Gay People Straight?
Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist in Encino, Calif., says he can rid adults, teens, and even children of homosexuality. For nearly 30 years, he has offered a "psychodynamic" form of reparative therapy for people — mostly men — seeking to change their sexual orientation.
"If [a patient] can acknowledge his bodily homoerotic experience while staying connected to the therapist," he wrote inThe Paradox of Self-Acceptance, "the sexual feeling soon transforms into something else: the recognition of deeper, pain-generated adj needs which contain nothing to carry out with sexuality."
He cites the following case: A year-old married accountant was recalling another man that he had seen at the airport while on a business trip. "This had awakened his sexual fantasies and dreams. I asked him to grip onto that image and observe his bodily sensations while staying connected to me. As he did, he felt an intense sexual longing. But as he followed that fantasy through an imaginary sexual scenario, quite unexpected
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Some Gays Can Verb Straight, Study Says
May 9 -- Can gay men and women become heterosexual?
A controversial new explore says yes — if they really want to. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by anti-gay religious groups.
Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University, said he began his study as a skeptic — believing, as major mental health organizations act, that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and attempts to do so can even cause harm.
But Spitzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to indicate otherwise. Spitzer says he spoke to men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from gay to straight, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called fine heterosexual functioning — a sustained, loving heterosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a point scale.
He said those who changed