Can Someone Be Homosexual and Not Gay? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?
• MY FEMALE FRIEND THKS HAVG SEX WH ME WILL SOLVE ALL HER SEXUAL PROBLEMS. UM, I’M GAY.
• RULTS FOR : GAY SEX ADDICT
• RULTS FOR : SEX ADDICT GAY

CAN SOMEONE BE HOMOSEXUAL AND NOT GAY?

Unfortunately, clicians and programs who provi the sex orientatn change efforts are now g a new treatment jtifitn, claimg that homosexualy is an addictive disorr.

She cl to endorse the terms reparative or nversn treatment, but says: “Some people stggle wh thoughts and feelgs of a homosexual nature, that is agast their valu. His attractn to men was miraculoly -eroticized, his sexual addictn was lifted, and he fell eply love wh his wife” and “After tryg va for years to overe his secret homosexual sex addictn, Dan fally "me out" enough to ask others for help.

Tradnal sex addictn treatments have pathologized gay and bi men.

MY FEMALE FRIEND THKS HAVG SEX WH ME WILL SOLVE ALL HER SEXUAL PROBLEMS. UM, I’M GAY.

It is not by accint that the sex addictn ncept took root Amerin pop psychology, jt as the HIV/AIDS crisis created tremendo fear of male homosexualy. A gay man sex addictn treatment once shared wh me that: “Most of the men who attend SAA meetgs are ‘actg out’ behavrs are often their homosexual behavrs.

RULTS FOR : GAY SEX ADDICT

People were subjected to forced treatments to “homosexualize” them. Perceivg homosexualy as a disease is not new.

Groups who classify homosexualy as an abnormaly, as a disease, do so om the base assumptn that homosexual attractns reflect a disturbance. But morn Amerin society no longer perceiv homosexual sir as an illns.

RULTS FOR : SEX ADDICT GAY

All of the programs and clicians ced above explicly intify themselv as relig unselors and programs, g an addictn mol of homosexualy to support a moral attack on homosexualy.