{"id":889,"date":"2012-04-19T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-04-19T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:07:29","slug":"psychiatrist-requests-retraction-of-controversial-gay-cure-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/04\/psychiatrist-requests-retraction-of-controversial-gay-cure-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist requests retraction of controversial \u2018gay cure\u2019 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Robert Spitzer has said he would like to retract a study he conducted on the result of \u2018gay cure\u2019 therapy which has been used to claim that some gay people are able to turn straight.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Dr Spitzer presented the controversial paper \u201cCan Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation\u201d, a study which looked at those who attended gay \u2018cure\u2019 therapy.<\/p>\n

The American Psychological Association distanced itself from the study, which said 66% of the men and 44% of the women Spitzer spoke to had achieved \u201cgood heterosexual functioning\u201d after seeking therapy for their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

To meet the required standard of \u201cheterosexual functioning\u201d, Dr Spitzer, who was himself instrumental in declassifying homosexuality as a disorder in the US in 1973, measured them against five criteria.<\/p>\n

Former patients needed to be in a loving heterosexual relationship during the last year, have overall satisfaction in emotional relationship with a partner, have heterosexual sex a few times a month, achieve physical satisfaction through heterosexual sex, and not think about another person of their sex more than 15% of the time they were sleeping with an opposite sex partner. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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