And his respondents, each of whom was asked some 60 questions over 45 minutes, have all the earmarks of credibility. And, he said, it doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.Ī well-designed survey, he said, can determine whether or not a respondent is credible. "The sample is terrible, totally tainted, totally unrepresentative of the gay and lesbian community," said David Elliot, a spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington.īut Spitzer says while the people in his sample were unusual - more religious than the general population - it doesn't mean their experiences can be dismissed.
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Another 23 percent were referred by the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, which says most of its members consider homosexuality a developmental disorder. Haldeman, however, noted that some 43 percent of those sampled were referred by religious groups that condemn homosexuality. "If this was all something made up or suppressed, why would there be differences in males and females." It is known that female sexuality is more fluid. "Now that's actually what you might expect from the literature.
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"We found that women in our sample moved from a less extreme homosexual to a more heterosexual level than did men," Spitzer says. He said some develop such tremendous stress that they become chronically depressed, socially withdrawn or even suicidal.īut Spitzer says his study shows that some homosexuals making some effort, usually for a few years, make the change.įindings from the study also verify other work about female sexuality, Spitzer says. In fact, he said, many of his subjects had been despondent and even suicidal themselves, for the opposite reason - "precisely because they had previously thought there was no hope for them, and they had been told by many mental health professionals that there was no hope for them, they had to just learn to live with their homosexual feelings." What I am disputing is that is invariably the outcome." "There's no doubt that many homosexuals who have been unsuccessful and, attempting to change, become depressed and their life becomes worse," he said.
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Spitzer doesn't question that many gay people have been hurt by therapy. "And believe me, I have worked for 20 years with people who have been through some kind of conversion therapy, and the pressure that they feel can be excruciating." "People attempt to change their sexual orientation not because there's something wrong with sexual orientation, but because of social factors, because of religious dogma, because of pressure from family," he said. The people in Spitzer's sample, he said, may be fooling themselves. Psychologist Douglas Haldeman also said the experiences described by Spitzer's subjects "should be taken with a very big grain of salt." That study has also not been published or reviewed. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Shroeder, two psychologists in private practice in New York City, found that of 215 homosexual subjects who received therapy to change their sexual orientation, the majority failed to do so. Spitzer argues that highly motivated gays can in fact change that preference - with a lot of effort.īut 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.Īnother study presented today even contradicted the finding. The study reopens the debate over "reparative therapy," or treatment to change sexual preference.
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But they managed to change those feelings, he added. "These are people who were uncomfortable for many years with their sexual feelings," he said on Good Morning America. However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a complete absence of homosexual indicators. 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. 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. Spitzer says he spoke to 143 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 10-point scale. 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.īut Spitzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to indicate otherwise.