Book discredits claim of "cure"

[BenL]

From: LGBT Health Digest - 4/28/09

New Book Further Discredits Claims of Masters and Johnson to have “Cured” Homosexuality

A new biography has further discredited the claims that William Masters and Virginia Johnson successfully employed “reparative” therapy to change sexual orientation among gay men and lesbians. In their 1979 book, Homosexuality in Perspective, the husband-and-wife team claimed to have successfully “cured” homosexuality among the 53 male and female patients with "homosexual dissatisfaction" two-week "conversion" or "reversion" treatment. The biography, Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier, details doubts about validity of the case studies that were brought to light by staff at the Masters and Johnson clinic before the publication of the 1979 book. Maier also summarizes these doubts in a recent article in Scientific American.

More information at www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homosexuality-cure-masters-johnson&print=true

[offog]

I'm really creeped out by the possibility that the "data" for the gay "cure" study may be bogus. So many academic and "scientific" studies are done to serve political/social agendas. You know; finding data to fit a pre-conceived conclusion.

I remember something one of my Sociology profs talked about in class once. She talked about how after WW2, "the man" needed to get women out of the labor market and back into the kitchen so that returning soldiers could have their jobs back. So all these studies came out showing that kids will turn out to be traumatised anti-social brats if Mom isn't home with them 24/7.

Turns out that the kids used for these studies had been through things like the London Blitz, and had bigger problems than Mom not being around all the time.