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A controversial new study says yes if they really want to. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by anti-gay religious groups.
Spitzer says he spoke to 143 men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from gay to straight, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called good heterosexual functioning a sustained, loving heterosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a 10-point scale.
CRITICS of Study..
Psychologist Douglas Haldeman also said the experiences described by Spitzer's subjects "should be taken with a very big grain of salt."
The people in Spitzer's sample, he said, may be fooling themselves.
"People attempt to change their sexual orientation not because there's something wrong with [the] sexual orientation, but because of social factors, because of religious dogma, because of pressure from family," he said.
"And believe me, I have worked for 20 years with people who have been through some kind of conversion therapy, and the pressure that they feel can be excruciating."
Some Gays Can Go Straight, Study Says - ABC News
My question though is why are gays so defensive gays about the idea people may want to choose a straight lifestyle.
WHY? What difference does it make if some people who behaved as gays now want to because of many OTHER factors want to have heterosexual orientation ?
I just find it so close minded on supposedly open minded people i.e. gays why are they so angry?
Why are they so upset that a single study shows that some gays want a straight life?
Gay conversion therapy implies that there is something inherently wrong with the individual that needs to be changed. Instead of teaching a young gay individual that one needs to find their own place in society (by being true to themselves), we are teaching the young gay individual that he/she needs to conform if they are to be accepted and have any shot of happiness in this lifetime.
This is sort of insulting, don't you think?
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What if it is?
I believe the question was 'why are people so defensive' about gay therapy, and I answered by saying it can be considered as pretty insulting.
Just a straightforward response.
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