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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Why not cure homosexuality?
- Message-ID: <19@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:11:10 GMT
- References: <15@bbx.basis.com> <1hsnu0INNt4@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <1hsnu0INNt4@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
- >>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?
-
- No. What this says is that sexuality is an extremely complicated thing
- and difficult to define. Society's intense homophobia will prevent any
- honest truth from being learned about anything sexual until the
- homophobia goes away. Unfortunately, this lack of genuine knowledge
- doesn't appear to stop quacks from possibly doing serious damage to
- mixed up people. This is evident by the repeated claims of "curing"
- homosexuality which have been exposed to be frauds. Even the notion
- of "I use to be homosexual but now I'm heterosexual" is so ridiculously
- oversimplified as to expose a genuine naivete. I'm sorry the Kinsey
- middle range ruins everything for those who think in terms of "cures".
-
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- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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