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Contents:
- "WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY
- NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
- GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON
"WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY
Disturbed's David Draiman has rpond to Mastodon guarist Brent Hds recently llg his band "gay ass sh." * disturbed gay *
Usg a batn of personal reflectns, published lerature, and origal empiril rearch, we argue that the disgt triggered by gay men's sexual practic (specifilly, anal terurse) is a cril, though overlooked, ntributor to heterosexual men and women's homonegativy (i. Not like I have anythg agast gay people though I generally watch gay porn guy on guy so the issue is more I didnt need that distractn and unfortablily my life affected my performance the whole day I got no productn bee of . ” No matter your opn on Disturbed — and ed, we’ve had some not-so-nice thgs to say about them over the years — there are plenty of ways to scribe that sentiment whout rortg to childish and dated homophobic slurs.
Although neher of our fantasi was fulfilled by the enunter, we end up havg an tertg nversatn about homosexualy, a topic the fellow was studyg graduate school, wh an obv personal vtment, and the topic of a paper I’d wrten my unrgraduate psychology class. But studi by Michael Bailey, my own lleagu, and other rearchers repeatedly fd that homosexual men are most attracted to men their late teens and early twenti, and they don’t re much about stat, stead prrizg physil attractivens.
NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
Usg a batn of personal reflectns, published lerature, and origal empiril rearch, we argue that the disgt triggered by gay men's sexual practic (specifilly, anal terurse) is a cril, though overlooked, ntributor to heterosexual men and women's homonegativy (i.e., n … * disturbed gay *
All this suggts that the old “social learng” theori don’t apply well to homosexual preferenc—if so, gay guys would learn om media and the social environment what mak for an attractive man, and go after the same featur that women fd attractive. Homosexual men are famoly promiscuo, a fact that beme well-known wh the onset of AIDS, when studi of gay men who were HIV-posive revealed average numbers of partners the hundreds (and even though gay men who were HIV negative had much lower numbers, the average for them was still dramatilly higher than the average numbers for heterosexual men). Camper-Ciani and other rearchers have gathered some evince that relativ of homosexuals have more sexual partners, and more offsprg, than relativ of a parable sample of heterosexuals.
Homosexual men are cled toward promiscuy, attracted to youth and good looks, and unrg about stat—hence many of the sexual swch homosexual men are set the same posn as they are heterosexual men—if gay guys were straight, their preferenc would lead them to pick fertile femal. To plite matters further, rearchers like Lisa Diamond have reviewed a reasonable amount of evince that different explanatns will likely apply to male and female homosexuals, and bisexuals.
Ltle wonr, then, that over the years we have taken for granted a number of sexual “facts” that now turn out to be the basis for heated, for example, the “fact” that homosexualy is a form of mental illns.
GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON
Brent Hds lled Disturbed "gay ass sh" a recent terview. The band apologized for his e of the homophobic slur. * disturbed gay *
Spzer, a Columbia Universy psychiatrist and spokman for the nomenclature mtee rponsible for the text of the rolutn, when qutned about the term “sexual orientatn disturbance, ” hedged: “We're not sayg that homosexualy is eher ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’... A number of crics are chargg that psychiatry bowed to the polil prsur of the Gay Liberatn Movement, and too quickly abandoned a valid ncept of psychiatric disorr, for the sake of beg “wh . *There are several ways to fe “homosexual, ” but the saft is still the simplt: A homosexual is any dividual whose sexual object choice is someone of the same to the gay activists who lobbied for the cisn, psychiatry is a prime source of persecutn.
Silverste charg that when treatment is directed only toward the victim of environmental strs (the homosexual), and not toward the e of the strs (social stutns), the effect of the treatment is polil—“to strengthen the stat quo. Frd believed that all humans were nstutnally bisexual, and that if a boy had a strong female ponent (a more “feme” and “passive” nature), he might fail to work his way through the Oedipal nflict, and th might bee homosexual. In general, a fear of women due to unnsc stratn anxiety, or fear of punishment by other mal for sirg a woman sexually, all stem om a poor rolutn of the Oedipal phase of, as well as everyone after him, was much ls clear about the explanatn for female homosexualy, but he did put forth siar plex dynamisms for .
Robert E Gould article on homosexualy; c recent cisn by Amer Psychiatric Assn to remove homosexualy om tegory of mental illns; revs Sigmund Frd's theory of homosexualy, based on 'verted Oedipal plex'; says Frd viewed homosexualy as sentially ed by nstutnal factors and also as a perversn; summariz theori of homosexualy by Edmund Bergler, Irvg Bieber, Charl Soris, Lawrence Hatterer, Lnel Ovey, Clara Thompson, Judd Marmor, June Hopks, Evelyn Hooker and the Wolfenn group GB; not many fdgs have not been nfirmed other labs and some s have been refuted; revs theori on female homosexualty by Frank Capr, Helen Dtsch, Cathere Ban and Clara Thompson; article qutns how psychiatrists, who see only small number of 'disturbed' homosexuals, n reach nclns about all homosexuals, when vast majory do not e for treatment and appear to be livg well-adjted liv; not that few studi parg nonpatient homosexuals and nonpatient heterosexuals have not borne out theory that homosexuals are sick or even different, except for their sexual preferenc; scrib 3 'typ' of homosexuals as those whose homosexualy reflects mental disturbance, those whose homosexualy is not related to psychiatric problem and those homosexuals who live happy, productive liv; ments on physil heterosexual matg as opposed to homosexual matg; ill of gay upl, Natl Gay Task Force dir Ron Gold, Dr Howard Brown and newly married gay uple * disturbed gay *
The sential differenc rrpond to the differenc stratn plex for boys and girls, and the theory of unrolved “penis envy” was advanced as a motivatg force for “mascule” behavr a Frd viewed homosexualy as sentially ed by nstutnal factors, and also as a perversn, he saw ltle hope for “curg” the ndn through therapy. Most analysts today view homosexualy terms of a nrosis or character disorr; they therefore nsir briefly summarized versn of a brilliant theorist's plited visn was dutifully absorbed the thkg and practice of many of his discipl, but Frd's largely unproved and undocumented assumptns ma evable that later psychiatrists would add to, subtract om, and modify the great man's the leadg morn thori on homosexualy, the followg subscribe to the “mental illns” theory, based, more or ls, on Frd:☐The late Edmund Bergler, a noted Vienna‐born psychiatrist who clared that all homosexualy reprented ser pathology. Bieber and ne associat nnected wh New York Medil College piled data on 106 homosexual patients (pared to a ntrol group of 100 nonhomosexual patients) and found several distct patterns the fay backgrounds of the homosexual group.
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☐Charl Soris, another New York Cy psychiatrist who has treated many male homosexuals private practice, claims that fear of “engulfment” by the domant mother is the key factor preventg the boy om beg pennt and progrsg to heterosexualy.
Soris believ that the boy's failure to separate om his mother, which pots him toward homosexualy, occurs the pre‐Oedipal phase (between ag 2 and 5) Soris and Bieber have spent years, clil rearch on homosexualy and are well‐known among psychiatrists—and also among homosexuals — for their theori. 1 and 2 (their rpective posns change om year to year), bee of their firmly held beliefs that homosexuals are severely stunted their psychosexual velopment, and that, if possible, they should unrgo therapy to “cure” their ndn.
Divergg also om Frd and many of Frd's followers, Hatterer postulat a “hypersexualized nscns, ” apart om Oedipal and stratn plex, through which the homosexual views every aspect of his life sexual terms.