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- From: eak@gagme.chi.il.us (Edward A. Kennedy)
- Subject: Re: Why not cure homosexuality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.040832.19376@gagme.chi.il.us>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:08:32 GMT
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- elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
- : Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, who has a stable of ~200 male patients seeking
- :"releif from homosexual urges" and has claimed, in public, to have
- :"cured" 68 of them, has some interesting problems. Among them is that
- :ALL 68 of the patients he lists as "cured" continue to see him, and
- :that ALL 68 admit to having homosexual drives and desires _still_.
-
- I too am uncomfortable with his use of the word "cured." But the
- thing to remember is that every one of those men have experienced
- a lessening of the homosexual urges that they wished to get rid of.
- That shows that Nicolosi is doing something at least. The ones on
- the TV show said that their homosexual urges were very minor compared
- with before. Art Janov, on the other hand, takes the screaming a lot
- farther and therefore the changes are more complete.
-
- : Nicolosi has managed to get some of these men to function in a
- :heterosexual setting and during heterosexual intercourse, but most of
- :them remain unhappily celibate. His "cures" are quackery. ONE THIRD
- :of his 68 have had homosexual contact of some kinds since pronouncment
- :of their being "cured."
- :
- : Homoesexuality is not a disease and needs no "cure." Nicolosi is a
- :homophobe of the worst sort, offering "hope" to people who need
- :something entirely different.
-
- The people who spoke on television were quite happy with the results.
- Why not let them decide what they want for themselves?
-
- -Ed
-