Turning from gay to straight

Joseph Nicolosi, a psychologist in Encino, Calif., says he can rid adults, teens, and even children of homosexuality. For nearly 30 years, he has offered a "psychodynamic" form of reparative therapy for people — mostly men — seeking to change their sexual orientation.

Spitzer says he spoke to 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.

Conversion therapy is any emotional or physical therapy used to “cure” or “repair” a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression. Providers claim these.

Gay conversion therapy, as it is known, supposedly helps gay people overcome same-sex attractions. But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful.

Is It Possible to Systematically Turn Gay People Straight? A century of treatments have ranged from horrifying to horribly unscientific.

May 9 -- Can gay men and women become heterosexual? A controversial new study says yes — if they really want to. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the.

I'm curious how many straight men would become gay if they could and how many would choose to stay straight, and why (For the record, I'm totally okay with being gay, this is just a curiosity.) Edit: To be clear, if you turn gay then you would be attracted to men, so how you currently feel towards men would change from what it is now.

A look at the shocking and misguided history of gay conversion therapy to turn homosexuals straight.