NY Daily News - Psychiatrist retracts infamous study claiming gay people can turn straight through therapy

[LadySkinsFan]

Bur couldn't the reason it has existed is simply the pleasure derived?

Then explain to me why I became nauseated every time I had sex with a man. And I don't when I have sex with a woman.

twa, when did you choose to be straight?

[Destino]

Nope. Pleasure at the expense of burning, shunning, and all the punishments visited throughout various cultures and periods make it extremely unlikely. Plus, that first instant reaction, blush, attraction is almost never conscious. It's physical... biological. Now, if you were to ask me is it binary, I'd argue no. I don't think you are or you aren't, but rather there are degrees of attraction. I think some are "gayer" than others for a lack of a better term and others are "straighter" than others.

There probably is a point on that continuum where you can choose and be happy either way. There is probably a point where happiness lies in only one direction.

Why not both and maybe even something else. Who is to say there is one way to get to being attracted to your own gender? Perhaps like many things it turns out that the answer isn't very simple.

[Burgold]

I thought that was what I said?

[Elessar78]

Then explain to me why I became nauseated every time I had sex with a man. And I don't when I have sex with a woman.

Simple. You had inconsiderate lovers with poor core strength. Instead of supporting their own weight, they let you bear the brunt of it. The nausea was CLEARLY from lack of oxygen. I keed, I keed.

[twa]

Then explain to me why I became nauseated every time I had sex with a man. And I don't when I have sex with a woman.

twa, when did you choose to be straight?

Because you have issues? ...I am not qualified,nor familiar enough, to say with any certainty.

Who said I chose straight?....perhaps I just went with the flow as you did

Bur many people choose behaviors that are shunned or persecuted...some even revel in doing so publicly

we are strange critters

[China]

Australian doctor reprimanded over gay 'cure'

SYDNEY - An Australian doctor has been severely reprimanded and banned from working as a general practitioner after prescribing a drug to a boy who came to him for help to "cure" his homosexuality.

A Health Care Complaints Commission committee found Mark Craddock guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct over his treatment of the 18-year-old at a 10-minute consultation at his home in early 2008.

Both men were at the time members of the Exclusive Brethren, a conservative Christian group whose members shun television, radio, and the Internet and do not vote.

In a letter of complaint to the commission, the patient wrote that he came out as gay at the age of 18 and was informed by a church leader, "There's medication you can go on for these things."

The patient then consulted Craddock.

The commission argued that during the consultation the doctor did not provide appropriate medical management of the patient's needs by failing to physically examine him or take a medical history.

He also failed to refer him to a counsellor or psychologist.

Craddock instead prescribed cyprostat, a drug used to treat prostate cancer and manage sexual deviation by reducing testosterone, in circumstances which were not clinically indicated, the commission alleged.

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