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    Image of ShanghaiLil ShanghaiLil
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    I wonder if they've tried naked pictures of Mario Lavendera?
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    Appreciating the usual Gawker tone on this, of course, but in seriousness one of my close family members said "Until a doctor," because my word wasn't enough, "tells me it has to be this way, I'll always see this as a crippling affliction I hope can be changed." And this was just five years ago.
    Emailed the APA statement, obvs. So yeah, thanks APA.
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    08/06/09

    @MattGaymon: I'm deeply impressed by your patience, or forgiveness, or whatever is at work here.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    08/06/09

    @valet_of_the_dolls: It's a simple case of "I told you so."
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    08/06/09

    @MattGaymon: The APA has not considered homosexuality a "disorder" since 1973. Even before then, many psychologists and doctors were on record with the opinion that homosexuality was not a disorder. The APA Help Center website has a great summary here.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    08/06/09

    @iplaudius: I know, but it's specifically the "change" part that my family member is (was!) hoping for. And this APA statement addresses that, specifically.
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    Edited by MattGaymon at 08/06/09 1:44 PM MattGaymon was starred MattGaymon was unstarred
    Image of laurosaur laurosaur
    08/06/09

    @MattGaymon: Well, like the Cajun Boy, I don't understand why the doctors had to wait for the motherfucking APA, the authority on psychology in our country, to issue an opinion on this, since the editors and readers at the Gawker Media Network already find this to be obvious.
    I am proud that the tone of this post is to ridicule research conducted to help gay people navigate a personal and public environment that can be incredibly hostile to them, even in 2009. A laudatory nod for their work would have been totally out of line.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    08/07/09

    @MattGaymon: I cornholed you so?
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    Image of irishflyesq irishflyesq
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    Also in today's Duh! news- Celibacy is NOT Hereditary!
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    Image of infmom infmom
    08/06/09

    @irishflyesq: Sure it is. If your parents didn't have sex, chances are you won't either.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    Can fag-haggism be cured?
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    Image of irishflyesq irishflyesq
    08/06/09

    @bytememehard: I hope not. I would have no single friends.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    From what I can tell, the Bible-thumper therapies consist of convincing same sex sinners that the cause of all the unhappiness in their lives is the result of their homosexual lifestyling. Like adolescents, they're convinced that happiness is as easy to obtain as finding the right (opposite marriage) soul mate. As someone raised by a closeted evangelical minister, I can assure them that that isn't actually so.
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    Image of LimitedLiabilityGirl LimitedLiabilityGirl
    08/06/09

    @Mediahohoho: Oh hai, were you my roommate in college?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/06/09

    @LimitedLiabilityGirl: No. It's a surprisingly common story. See Heche, Anne, biography of. Among others.
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    I need to start hanging out at conversion centers. I bet there is some desperate ass there.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    08/07/09

    @StonedAndDethroned: yeah, but they all date each other. It's a closed society.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    But can psychological intervention satisfy bi-curiousity? I'm just curious, APA.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    I can't help remembering Strom Thurmond's question to the gay rights activist who spoke (obviously against confirmation) at the Bork hearings: "Have any o' you boys tried going to a doctor to see if you could get yourselves cured?" When the activist responded that the medical community did not believe that homosexuality was a disease, Strom simply repeated the question. Good times, good times.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/06/09

    @depardoo: and then he repeated that they "speak into the machine"
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    Image of Dürer's Rhino Dürer's Rhino
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    ...and tonight hundreds of good christian men will go home and celebrate their successful conversion by hate-fucking their wives then weeping until morning curled up in the shower with a shampoo bottle up their ass.
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    Image of rockandhardPL rockandhardPL
    08/06/09

    @Dürer's Rhino: That's a Tuesday for me.
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    08/06/09

    @Dürer's Rhino: Dad?
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    08/07/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: Priceless, all of you.
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    Image of Jessestalker Jessestalker
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    Did anyone else notice the WSJ's take was a little different?They reported "Psychological Association Revises Treatment Guidelines to Allow Counselors to Help Clients Reject Their Same-Sex Attractions" [tinyurl.com]
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/06/09

    @Jessestalker: That's weird. As someone who believes in staying monogamous, I reject my opposite-sex attractions all the time. Somehow they come back at the oddest times.
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    08/06/09

    @Mediahohoho: am in the same boat with my monogamy vs. attractions, but luckily the APA's members have plenty of anti-depressants in their arsenal that take care of it.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08/06/09

    @Jessestalker: Of course, I could always "go Republican" and fuck anything and everything that moves.
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study

    :)
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    I only wish that this could help save Bryce.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    Hmm, not convinced. Did they also interview park rangers who prayed extra hard?
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    This article says nothing about straight-to-gay therapy.
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    Image of BooWahBabe BooWahBabe
    08/06/09

    @Mikey-B: So-called straight married men have no problem with the gays ... as long as their wives don't find out what they're doing in those few free moments before work, at lunch, or right after the 5pm whistle blows ... so to speak.
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    Image of PopCultureSavant PopCultureSavant
    08/06/09

    @BooWahBabe: I work at a bookstore and the other day a man bought, among other things, a gay porn magazine. I thought nothing of it until I noticed the wedding ring on his finger and I had to give him an imaginary side-eye.
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    08/06/09

    @PopCultureSavant: Maybe he is married to a man.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    08/06/09

    @BookishLookish: Or maybe he uses it to attract men like me, who like fucking married guys.
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    Image of seyswho seyswho
    08/06/09

    In reply to Gay Conversions Don't Work, Says Shocking New Study
    This is only shocking to those who considered homosexuality shocking in the first place, and tried to create "camps" for those who dared go against God's law.
    When those camps didn't work, would those who created them admit guilt? Never. Those ones within the camps who committed suicide? Troubled individuals. Those who were in those camps and spoke out against them? Apostates. And were these camps shut down? Absolutely not, thanks to "religious freedom".
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