Can gay people become straight

Oct 4, AM. Sponsored Content by Taboola. But they managed to change those feelings, he added. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by anti-gay religious groups.

Spitzer says he spoke to men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from gay to straight, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called good heterosexual functioning — a sustained, loving heterosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a point scale.

Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by anti-gay religious groups. But Spitzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to indicate otherwise.

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Can some gay men : It turns out that not only is change possible, but there are multiple and independent lines of evidence to warrant such a belief

Robert Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University, said he began his study as a skeptic — believing, as major mental health organizations do, that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and attempts to do so can even cause harm. This study tested the hypothesis that some individuals whose sexual orientation is predominantly homosexual can, with some form of reparative therapy, become predominantly heterosexual.

However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a complete absence of homosexual indicators. By ABC News. He also found that 89 percent of men and 95 percent of women were bothered not at all or only slightly by unwanted homosexual feelings.

Spitzer argues that highly motivated gays can in fact change that preference — with a lot of effort. But critics have challenged the study, even before it was formally unveiled at today's session of the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, which was jammed with television cameras reporting on the presentation.

The study reopens the debate over "reparative therapy," or treatment to change sexual preference. A controversial new study says yes — if they really want to. So you don't have to actually become straight to survive this homophobic environment you're in, you could just keep your sexuality to yourself for a few years, then move out (maybe to go to university in another city far from your family?), and get a job.

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May 9 -- Can gay men and women become heterosexual? Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? A controversial new study says yes — if they really want to.

Oct 10, AM. ABC News Live. He said those who changed their orientation had satisfying heterosexual sex at least monthly and never or rarely thought of someone of the same sex during intercourse. May 9 -- Can gay men and women become heterosexual?