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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Why not cure homosexuality?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 17:57:20 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
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- scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
-
- (before anyone flames me for advocating 'curing' homosexuality, let me
- spell out that I'm not for it...)
-
- > Sorry, but I'm not aware of any documented and confirmed case of anybody ever
- > changing their sexual orientation (and believe me I've looked). Some
- > people have been known to forceably change their sexual behaviour and
- > habits. Some people who are in the Kinsey 2-4 range may find a
- > different gendered SO at different times in their lives.
-
- What this seems to be saying is that it can *never* be demonstrated that
- a person changes their orientation, since if they do, they can just be
- said to have been 'in a middle range' and not really homosexual anyways.
- If you can't measure someone's Kinsey rating, how can you determine
- if he changed?
-
- Walter
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-