Why was homosexuality in the USA removed as a mental illness?
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Whatever the cause they're correct. It isn't a mental illness. Eventually you may go mad, but it is an acquired perversity which can be dropped. When you introduce into the body toxic poisons and waste fluids in the body as with the type of activity that kind of life is known for, it attacks the entire body. Total breakdown. That's why it's called Acquired Immune Deficency Syndrome. You flooded the body with poison by that activity. It is not a sex act. You're not designed that way. The colon/rectal area is, simply put, the body's sewer system. Read what happened to Marat during the French Revolution. He escaped his enemies by hiding in the Paris sewers and contracted an incurable skin disease.
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In 1890 Chocolate King Hershey built the utopian city Hershey in Illinois to prove that very thing. I am sure there was a difference in mental illness rates back then. Remember cultural rates reported in America show that whites have twice as much mental illness as non-whites today. So cultures can make a difference. Would it be cost effective to give patients sex and money and no pills. I am going to say yes but who will say OK.
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rewrite it all you want, the story of Sodom was obvoius, even after being blinded the men drove wild by thier homosexal desires still try to find the men to rape them.\n\nThey were preverted into sexual illness.\n\nIt is wrong and against nature, no matter who you want to try to twist facts to prove it ok.\n\nIt would not even be legal today if it had not been for judges ruling against the public opinion.  had it been put up to a vote, it would still be illegal in the US.\n\nBut enjoy your preversions while you wish, God will flood his judgement on you in his time also.
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wow...didn't know all that...good info...i agree..it is a type of mental disorder...kinda like over eaters, thieves, drunkards, and so on....people who say it has been around for a long time and say its normal...so has murder is that normal...and if it is so normal...why does is go against natural law...they can't reproduce themselves...how does it exist if it is not a mental condition? so i guess we made the wrong decision...
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Men who intentionally mutilate or remove their own genitals are likely to be psychotic at the time of the act, to have a number of goals and aims relating to conflicts about the male role, and to be vulnerable to sociocultural and psychological forces in a causal network as yet unknown. However, from a review of the cases of 53 male self-mutilators, it appears that a significant number involve individuals not psychotic at the time of the act but rather having character disorders and rageful feelings toward themselves or women, and transsexual males who premeditate their own gender conversion surgery. http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/4/441\n\nGenital self-mutilation is seldom reported; fewer than 100 cases have been reported in the literature to date. Few studies have examined the factors that may lead susceptible individuals to undertake this act. I have heard of a case of genital self-mutilation by 22-year-old man who cut off his penis with an electric chain saw. This patient, who also demonstrated borderline intellectual functioning as evidenced by psychological testing, was likely influenced by the popular media, which was showcasing the criminal trials of John and Lorena Bobbitt and the time of the patient's act. (Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy: 22 (1): 35-46, 1996.)\n\nAnother case involved a man attempting to reclaim a foreskin after circumcision. http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/walter/\n\nThis is likely the result of a severe and acute mental illness, an off-shoot of body dysmorphic disorder, or related to an extreme religious guilt-induced psychosis.  Perhaps in very rare cases, ity may be the desperate act of an mentally ill individual with transgender identity issues, although Transgendered or Transexual individual are not necessarily mental ill.\n\nIn any case, it is shocking and sad. And is not at all a common, or commonly reported, incident.
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in the early 1960s, the homosexual subculture started using the word to describe themselves.  The term "homosexual" was too "clinical" (it was in the DSM III as a "mental disorder") and queer was too derogatory, so the word gay (happy) was coined.  By about 1963, mainstream america had started to adopt it too (hetrosexual america I mean...)\n\n"waterhead" is an appropos name for the idiot that posted first.  Must have nothing but water in his head.
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I think there are a lot of Christians who have been taught to hate themselves and their God given sexual orientation, and it hurts not only them, but their families.  I pray constantly that God will free people from the bondage of lies that keep them closeted.  Someday, homphobia will seem as outdated as racism, and probably take twice as long to shake off.
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Ten percent is probably a huge exaggeration, though it somehow became the standard figure for a while. This may date back to the 1950s, when Alfred Kinsey published his books about sexuality. Because many people who didn't identify as homosexual had had homosexual experiences nonetheless, some people read these data and concluded exclusive homosexuality was much more common than it probably is.\n\nThere are SO many variables involved in determining the underlying conditions behind your very good question. Gender identity is so fluid and flexible that people don't always fit easily into categories "homosexual," "heterosexual," "bisexual," and the like. \n\nAnother complication is that, although you ask the question very broadly, a given percentage of any specific population - a self-selected or self-identified one, for example = won't necessarily have a constant statistical proportion of people of any given sexuality represented within it. And variables that may not seem to correlate at all with sexual behavior of the members of a group may be better determinants of what those people identify themselves as. \n\nIn some cultures, the concept of "gay" or "homosexual" in the Western European & American senses of those terms don't really exist. Other social constructions of same-sex relationships under different conditions, with rituals, subdialects, and patterns of secrecy exist that it would be unfair to characterize in the same terms that we use in the West.\n\nSo, I haven't given you a percentage, but I hope this helps a little.\n\nBy the way, I'm about 90% gay myself. The other ten percent vacillates between being curious and being sleepy.
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Liberalism is a mental disorder
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The issue of homosexual behavior has had a lot of publicity of late. Homosexuals say that the slaves have been freed and women have been liberated, so gay rights are long overdue. Society does seem to be moving in that direction. Many homosexuals are "coming out" and openly declaring their homosexuality. In many parts of the western world, homosexual couples receive the same recognition as heterosexual couples with regard to social security benefits. Some church leaders are giving their blessing to homosexual relationships, homosexual church members and even homosexual ministers.Since other groups who have been discriminated against (such as women, blacks and the disabled) have been given equal opportunity, homosexuals claim that they, too, should be liberated. However, as one Christian expert has said...\n\n"Gender, race and impairment all relate to what a person is, whereas homosexuality relates to what a person does."1\n\nIn contrast, homosexuals claim that scientific studies have shown that there is a biological basis for homosexuality.\n\nThree main studies are cited by "gay rights" activists in support of their argument2—Hamer's X-chromosome research,3 LeVay's study of the hypothalamus,4 and Bailey and Pillard's study of identical twins who were homosexuals.5\n\nIn all three cases, the researchers had a vested interest in obtaining a certain outcome because they were homosexuals themselves. More importantly, their studies did not stand up to scientific scrutiny by other researchers. Also, "the media typically do not explain the methodological flaws in these studies, and they typically oversimplify the results".6 There is no reliable evidence to date that homosexual behavior is determined by a person's genes.\n\nTo the extent that biological or social factors may contribute to a person's bent toward homosexual behavior, this does not excuse it. Some people have a strong bent towards stealing or abuse of alcohol, but they still choose to engage or not engage in this behavior—the law rightly holds them accountable.\n\nThe final report of the Baptist Union of Western Australia (BUWA) Task Force on Human Sexuality states 'that a person becomes a homosexual ultimately by choosing to be involved in same-sex activity... This is in contrast to innate characteristics such as gender and ethnicity.'7 The report affirms that 'the Bible is clear that sin involves choice, and it unequivocally condemns homosexual behavior as sin'.7\n\nThe foundational teaching on marriage and sexual issues is found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. When Jesus was questioned about marriage, He referred to these 2 chapters (Matthew 19:1-12; Mark 10:1-12). Genesis teaches us that 'male and female He created them' (Genesis 1:27). We were created to a plan—male and female complementing each other. That is, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, nor Madam and Eve.The Bible not only describes homosexual behavior as detestable, but it also calls for the punishment of those involved (Leviticus 20:13). Their unrepentant attitude caused God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-25).\n\nJust as homosexual conduct has been punished in the past, so it will also be punished by God in the future.\n\n"...Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).\n\nHope
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Emphatically No.   \n\nFirst off, do you really believe being gay is a "disease", afterall, that's what cures or for aren't they. If so you best dispose of yourself now because it's a "disease" that isn't going away any time soon, Christian bigotry notwithstanding.  \n\nSecondly, to even be asked this question by a "friend" implies a not to subtle discomfort.  Now some might say it's a harmless question, but would your friend like to be "cured" of his/her heterosexuality.  I suspect you would find the answer rather surprising.\n\nThe truth is that being gay is no more a disease than being straight.  When will young gays learn this.  When you ask such questions or worse, use the word "cure", you not only demean yourself but you also show great disrespect for those who came before you.  The ones who were tortured, murdered, beaten and ridiculed over the years.  The ones who fought with blood just so you could be free.  \n\nPlease, please, please cease this constant...."Oh I wish I were straight", it's frankly shameful and buys into the hate that has always tried to destroy the gay peoples of the world.  We are who we are, Generals (Alexander, Ceasar), Playrights (George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde), Actors (sir Ian McKellan, Anthony Perkins, Troy Donahue, Tab Hunter, Rock Hudson, Marlene Detreich), I could go on but you get the point I hope.\n\nAs Jews have said throughout the last century and as gays we should also: "Never Again"
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As the gay-hating (for lack of a better word) in Christianity and most modern organized religion stemmed from base hatred of gay supporting cultures (as in Rome, where homosexuality in men was considered more 'manly'), such things were probably used to discourage people in an ancestor-based society. \n\nIt has been proved wrong, however. I know many gays with children. They adopt or have children by other means.
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There are a lot of issues in this situation. For example, there are crimes for which a 'free pass' is given in this society. Vehicular homicide by senior citizens is one (they even sue the car manufacturers for faulty brakes and/or gas pedals) and killing one's children due to insanity is another. \n\nEver since the story of Abraham hearing voices (from God?) in his head telling him to kill his son Isaac, we've been acculturated to allow people to rejoin society as normal after a period of mental health treatment.\n\nMaybe the real question is "Should mental health professionals be allowed to declare people 'cured' when heinous crimes have been committed?"\n\nI think if we could all acknowledge that the bible story relates a tale of schizophrenia described in a primitive fashion and that child murder, even by parents, results in guilty but insane verdicts, then we'd all be better off.
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people are programmed to accept what is told to them as "normal". most of the religions denounce homosexuality as sinful, or even unnatural. thus the conditioning of the larger chunk of the society. it will be ages before we could fully understand the underlying "causes" of homosexuality. till then, there will always be those who fail to understand the fact that gay people are people too. and those that say gay people need not crow about their sexuality - would they be willing to listen if we kept a little quieter and submissive about our rights? chiefly the right to not be made fun of for what we are?
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No, the spread in the US was traced to a bisexual Canadian airline attendant who made frequent trips to the bath houses in San Francisco.  According to the World Health Org.
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There are a few sites out there (Google ex-gay movement). They claim to work by using faith based "treatments" but most ex-gays go back to homosexuality years after the treatment, so they don't work in most cases. The best thing you should do is learn to accept yourself because this type of change rarely works and many experts of mental health, including the American Psychological Association, believe these treatments are very detrimental to a patients mental health. In other words, if you decide to go through with this, be careful.
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Best said in the link below.\nMany homosexuals are miserable because of their gender disorientation. Often this is a result of a broken home especially one that lacks a father. It is out of compassion the church seeks to help those who need it. Also the radical homosexual agenda seeks to destroy the family as it has always been in all civilizations and all major religions for all of history. This is important because the normal family has always been the strength of society and the best place to raise kids. Homosexuals deny that kids need both a mom and a dad but statistics overwhelmingly show that kids with out both have a great disadvantage over those who do and are much more likely to have problems.