Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health.
Contents:
- WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
- STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
- GAY DISEASE
WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
* being gay is a disease *
Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn (WHO) Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn. AbstractThe Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn have suggted for many years now that there is signifint empiril evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is a normal variant of human sexual orientatn as opposed to a mental disorr. The accatn of g outdated material and viatg to realms beyond the spe of one's expertise impli two thgs; first, impli that there actually is rmatn that is more up-to-date than what the nun prented on the topic of homosexualy, and sendly impli that there are credible experts who are more qualified to teach or speak on the topic of homosexualy.
Hence, is necsary to provi a summary and analysis of that purported up-to-date scientific evince which supports the claim that homosexualy is not a mental two groups that are typilly emed thorative and credible experts on mental disorrs the Uned Stat are the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn; th, I will prent their stanc on homosexualy and then analyze the “scientific evince” that they claim supports their stanc. As a rult of their ficienci, the credibily of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the APA, at least their claims regardg human sexualy, is lled to Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric AssociatnI will beg by scribg the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and I will then prent their stanc on the topic of homosexualy.
Dog so will provi more evince of the stance of both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Two Associatns’ Stance on HomosexualyThe APA wr:Same-sex sexual attractns, behavr, and orientatns per se are normal and posive variants of human sexualy— other words, they do not dite eher mental or velopmental disorrs. 2009, 15) Brief of Amici Curiae for both the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn siar language:Des of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream mental health anizatns this untry to the ncln that homosexualy is a normal form of human sexualy. (Brief of Amici Curiae 2003, 1)Hence, the basic stance of the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn is that homosexualy is not a mental disorr but is rather a normal form of human sexualy, and they propose that their stance is based on signifint scientific evince.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Sexually Transmted Diseas (STDs) have been creasg among gay and bisexual men. * being gay is a disease *
)Aled KseyThe APA Task Force document proceeds by cg two books wrten by Aled Ksey 1948 and 1953 (Sexual Behavr the Human Male and Sexual Behavr the Human Female):At the same time that the pathologizg views of homosexualy Amerin psychiatry and psychology were beg dified, untervailg evince was accumulatg that this stigmatizg view was ill found. 2009, 22)Implied that statement is a “normaly” of the sexual behavrs, specifilly homosexualy, on the ntuum; for a study to be ced as “untervailg evince” of the claim that homosexualy is abnormal, the study mt suggt that homosexualy is normal. (Ksey and Pomeroy 1948, emphasis add)In regards to homosexualy, Ksey (and the APA thors) nclus that bee some people experience sexual attractn to the same genr, then tomatilly follows that there is a normal ntuum of sexual attractns.
Therefore, there is a normal variatn (or a normal “ntuum”) of sexual replacg homosexualy wh the exampl of body tegry inty disorr and self-harm/self-mutilatn Aled Ksey's and the APA's argument (that is, if we follow the logic of Ksey and the APA) the argument would be as follows:. Ford and Beach also “pot out that among non-human primat both mal and femal engage homosexual activy” (Gentile and Miller 2009), the APA thors suggt that bee two rearchers 1951 found that homosexual sex is observed some humans and animals then the ncln follows that there is “nothg unnatural about .
IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
Is AIDS a "gay" disease? Today, 70% of new HIV s occur homosexual and bisexual mal. HIV/AIDS is spread by risky sexual behavr... * being gay is a disease *
Hooker found, among other thgs, that based on three projective measur (the Thematic Apperceptn Tt, the Make-a-Picture Story tt, and the Rorschach), the homosexual men were parable to their matched heterosexual peers on ratgs of adjtment. Strikgly, the experts who examed the Rorschach protols uld not distguish the protols of the homosexual hort om the heterosexual hort, a glarg nsistency wh the then-domant unrstandg of homosexualy and projective asssment techniqu. 2009, 22, emphasis add)The Amici Curiae Brief for the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn c Hooker's study as well, cg as a rigoro examatn:In one of the first rigoro examatns of the mental health stat of homosexualy, Dr.
STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
Prev studi have dited creased risk of mental disorr symptoms, suici and substance mise lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults, pared to heterosexual adults. Our aims were to terme an timate of the associatn between sexual orientatn inty and poor mental health and wellbeg among adults om 12 populatn surveys the UK, and to nsir whether effects differed for specific subgroups of the populatn. Individual data were pooled om the Brish Cohort Study 2012, Health Survey for England 2011, 2012 and 2013, Sttish Health Survey 2008 to 2013, Longudal Study of Young People England 2009/10 and Unrstandg Society 2011/12. Individual participant meta-analysis was ed to pool timat om each study, allowg for between-study variatn. Of 94,818 participants, 1.1 % intified as lbian/gay, 0.9 % as bisexual, 0.8 % as ‘other’ and 97.2 % as heterosexual. Adjtg for a range of variat, adults who intified as lbian/gay had higher prevalence of mon mental disorr when pared to heterosexuals, but the associatn was different different age groups: apparent for those unr 35 (OR = 1.78, 95 % CI 1.40, 2.26), weaker at age 35–54.9 (OR = 1.42, 95 % CI 1.10, 1.84), but strongt at age 55+ (OR = 2.06, 95 % CI 1.29, 3.31). The effects were stronger for bisexual adults, siar for those intifyg as ‘other’, and siar for 'low wellbeg'. In the UK, LGB adults have higher prevalence of poor mental health and low wellbeg when pared to heterosexuals, particularly younger and olr LGB adults. Sexual orientatn inty should be measured routely all health studi and admistrative data the UK orr to fluence natnal and lol policy velopment and service livery. The rults reerate the need for lol ernment, NHS provirs and public health policy makers to nsir how to addrs equali mental health among the mory groups. * being gay is a disease *
Evelyn Hooker admistered a battery of standard psychologil tts to homosexual and heterosexual men who were matched for age, IQ, and tn … She nclud om her data that homosexualy is not herently associated wh psychopathology and that “homosexualy as a clil enty do not exist.
In Hooker's study, the endpot measured was the “adjtment” of homosexuals and heterosexuals, and Hooker claimed that the adjtment measured for homosexuals and heterosexuals was siar; she do not, however, outright fe that term “adjtment. My foc for this paper is the irrelevant endpot—“adjtment”—ed by Hooker as scientific evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is normal; I foc on that endpot bee as of 2014 “adjtment” is still the endpot ced by the major associatns as scientific evince supportg the claim that homosexualy is a “normal variatn of human sexual orientatn.
2009, 23, emphasis add)That last le which I emphasized is extremely important; the “newly veloped measur” pared the “adaptatn” and abily to functn society homosexuals and heterosexuals and ed the parison to support the ncln that homosexualy is not a disorr.
GAY DISEASE
Furthermore, Gonsrek suggts that “The only relevant issue is whether any well-adjted homosexuals exist at all” (Gonsrek 1991, 119–20) andWhether homosexualy per se is or is not pathologil and ditive of psychologil disturbance is easily answered. Gonsrek impli that if sexual orientatn is “related” to psychologil adjtment, then one uld nsir homosexually cled people to be mentally disorred; if, however, there is no difference adjtment measurements of heterosexuals and homosexuals, then (acrdg to Gonsrek) homosexualy is not a mental disorr. Texas filed by the APA and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn also c Gonsrek's review as scientific evince which supports the claim that “homosexualy is not related to psychopathology or social maladjtment” (Brief of Amici Curiae 2003, 11).
The brief then offers a few more catns of scientific evince supportg that claim; one article ced is a review study om 1978 which also looked at “adjtment” and “nclus that fdgs to date have not monstrated that the homosexual dividual is any ls psychologilly adjted than his heterosexual unterpart” (Hart et al. ” Gonsrek claims that bee homosexuals are siar to heterosexuals measur of prsn, self-teem, relatnship disrd, and sexual disrd, tomatilly follows that homosexualy is not a disorr, as he not: “The general ncln is clear: The studi overwhelmgly suggt that homosexualy per se is not related to psychopathology or psychologil adjtment” (Gonsrek 1991, 115–36).
Hence, there are multiple mental disorrs which measurg adjtment has no relevance whatsoever to the mental disorr; this is a major ficiency the lerature ed as scientific evince to support the ncln that homosexualy is not a mental is a signifint fdg, although I am not the first to mentn the problem wh diagnosg mental disorrs by lookg at distrs, social functng, or other endpots that are clud unr the terms “adjtment” and “adaptatn. ” So, the homosexualy-is-not-a-mental-disorr claim is based on a meangls (and outdated) Irvg Bieber, “one of the key participants the historic bate which culmated the 1973 cisn to remove homosexualy om the psychiatric manual” (NARTH Instute n.