Willful Grace asked last week: Here’s a question. Please comment. Let me know what you think about this. What if…..we are born not really sexually attracted to any certain gender in particular. What if…..we are born with certain personality traits…
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Warren Throckmorton has just published a preliminary document developed by himself and Mark Yarhouse. Titled Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts (100K pdf) Its intended audience is mental health professionals, and at this point the authors…
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Study Gets 2nd Look: Exgays Harmed By Therapy
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From Screw Bronze via A Tenable Belief via Some Guys Are Normal: In 2001, a peer-reviewed study by Drs. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder measured the harm caused by exgay programs to 202 former participants. Some Guys Are Normal observes:…
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From AP/CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lesbians’ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women. An earlier study of gay men also showed their brain response was different from straight men — an even stronger difference than has…
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From The Scotsman via Andrew Sullivan: Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Consolmagno says creation myths are rooted in prehistoric belief in nature gods:…
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From Jim Burroway: Paul Cameron’s article, “Children of homosexuals and transsexuals more apt to be homosexual,” has just appeared in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of Biosocial Science, an imprint of Cambridge University Press. Until now, almost all…
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Robert Spitzer on “Choice”
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ScienCentral News has a good piece up today summarizing the current scientific debate about the origins of homosexuality–and the political controversies attendant to it (I wish I could link to the full Scientific American Mind article the author is referencing,…
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Left-Handedness, Gay People, And the Gene Pool
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Gay Duck Lifemates
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OK, this is a fluff piece. But it’s a sunny Friday and there’s not much ex-gay news going on, so this is for those who continue to use “it’s unnatural” as their argument: Pink news is reporting that a park…
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A new UCLA study of chromosomes in 97 mothers of gay sons and 103 mothers without gay sons shows a difference in the occurrence rate of the way certain cells behave. The cells in women each have two X-chromosomes, one…