Most studies that have looked at it generally have found that while there may be a higher incidence of psychiatric disorders amoung gays, its mostly related to stress and discrimination than anything else (i.e., http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/185/6/479). As for broken homes, mostly that literature is based on freudian theorizing, which has been shown to be quite invalid. Mostly the data show that the rates of "broken homes" and homosexuality is no different than for heterosexuals.
Again, as for bisexuality, the UK study I cited earlier, showed somewhat better rates for bisexual men as for gays. The obvious implications there is they do not have to suffer the same degree of discrimination as gays. As for so called formerly gay and happy - first off were they actually gay? Or were they bisexual? In other words there is a definitional problem there. So called reparative/conversion therapy studies have suffered from the lack of operational definations. Was a followup conducted and for how long? Again that was a very common failing to the studies I looked at. Those two problems alone make most studies in that area useless. Typically if there is a followup done, its no longer than a few months and usually was a telephone contact - ie "You still gay?" rather than bringing the person in to the clinic and actually measuring the degree of arousal to homosexual oriented material. larry On 1/22/06, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the incidence of psychiatric disorders amongst the 'gay' > populations. > What percentage of them come from broken homes? > > Have there been any studies done on that? > > Where do BiSexuals fit into those surveys? People who can switch > between same sex and opposite sex preference.Where does that fit in to > the theory that there is no choice, no correlation with Nurture? > > How does one explain people that were 'formerly' gay, but now are > straight and quite happy? > > On 1/22/06, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Gays cannot help being gay any more that blacks > > cannot help being black. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:193738 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
