For years, there have been groups that have claimed to "cure" homosexuality through "Christian" therapy. At one point in grad school I looked at doing an analysis of the success of such treatments. I gave it up after I got completely stonewalled trying to get information about the programs' treatment success rates. None of these groups were telling. I then went through the psych literature back to the early 50's. Briefly the only studies that reported so called successfull conversions were uncontrolled case studies. I found one real study that actually reported follow rates - 6 months. Their results went from miserable to worse. after 6 months only one participant reported not being attracted to members of the opposite sex. So from what the data suggest, you cannot be forced to be gay, or straight.
larry > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:49 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Warning: This may offend if religious >> >> >> Actually, it is. No amount of research has shown for a fact >> that you are forced to be gay or not. There has been some > >But, no amount of research has shown that you can be forced to be gay or >not. > >"Are" and "can be" are the operative words. The question is whether you >are gay at birth or "change" later. I think that most studies agree >that there's an aspect to both. > >As to the term "lifestyle" it's loaded simply because it implies are >transient thing: the word "style" implies something that may change at >whim. And the word life style was simply an invention that's mostly >been used to implie personal choices. The phrase "lifestyle choice" has >become cemented with the word "lifestyle". > >In my opinion neither homosexuality or religion can be considered >"lifestyles". Homosexuality because, regardless of cause, most >homosexuals feel they have no choice, and religion because (the truly) >religious feel that they have no choice. > >In both cases you can have aspects of "lifestyle" in those people that >experiment either sexually or religiously, but that shouldn't then imply >that anybody gay or religious has made a lifestyle choice. > >Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
