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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Real Programmers Eat Quiche)
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Subject: Sorry, Jeff
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 14:23:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 14:23:01 1984
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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_>
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