Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Real Programmers Eat Quiche) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Sorry, Jeff Message-ID: <1497@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 14:23:01 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1497 Posted: Thu Jun 14 14:23:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:55:05 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 22 Sorry, Jeff____________________________________________________________________ Jeff Sargent would have us think that homosexuality is a mental ill- ness. He recommends a book that agrees with him. Sorry, Jeff, but that view isn't supported by psychology and psychiatry at large. The American Psychiatric Association voted in 1974 that homosexual- ity is *not* mental illness. (There was dissent, but it didn't take.) The view that everyone is heterosexual at heart isn't supported by the findings of psychologists - the ones who approach this issue scientifically. The prevailing theory - formulated by Kinsey of the famous Kinsey studies and supported by several studies since - is that humans' sexual orientation exists on an ambisexual continuum. This accounts for bisexuality, heterosexuality (with a few homosexual encounters here and there), etc. <_Jym_> ._________________________________________________________. .__! Jym Dyer <> Software Craftsworker for DEC <> Nashua, NH !__. .__! Arpanet: dyer%vaxuum.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <> E-Net: VAXUUM::DYER !__. __! Usenet: ...{allegra|decvax|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer !__ .-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Statements made here are my own, not necessarily |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|'s. `-`-`-`-'-'-'-'