Back high school, when I uldn’t figure out why I felt so pelled to secretly drs and act like a woman, I started to wonr if I was gay. I’d always been attracted to girls, and I even had a…
Contents:
- SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
- “HELP ME CHANGE FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT”
- ‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED
- HOW TO LEAD A HETEROSEXUAL LIFTYLE IF YOU ARE GAY
SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
Probe rponds to a rear askg for advice changg om gay to straight. * gay changed to straight *
May 9, 2001 -- Can gay men and women bee heterosexual? Crics, though, say the study's subjects may be ludg themselv and that the subject group was scientifilly valid bee many of them were referred by anti-gay relig Robert Spzer, a psychiatry profsor at Columbia Universy, said he began his study as a skeptic — believg, as major mental health anizatns do, that sexual orientatn nnot be changed, and attempts to do so n even e Spzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to dite otherwise.
“HELP ME CHANGE FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT”
Spzer says he spoke to 143 men and 57 women who say they changed their orientatn om gay to straight, and nclud that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he lled good heterosexual functng — a staed, lovg heterosexual relatnship wh the past year and gettg enough emotnal satisfactn to rate at least a seven on a 10-pot said those who changed their orientatn had satisfyg heterosexual sex at least monthly and never or rarely thought of someone of the same sex durg also found that 89 percent of men and 95 percent of women were bothered not at all or only slightly by unwanted homosexual feelgs.
However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a plete absence of homosexual ditors.
‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED
Spzer argu that highly motivated gays n fact change that preference — wh a lot of Study, Old DebateBut crics have challenged the study, even before was formally unveiled at today's ssn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's annual meetg New Orleans, which was jammed wh televisn meras reportg on the prentatn.
HOW TO LEAD A HETEROSEXUAL LIFTYLE IF YOU ARE GAY
Ariel Shidlo and Michael Shroer, two psychologists private practice New York Cy, found that of 215 homosexual subjects who received therapy to change their sexual orientatn, the majory failed to do so.