Sexual orientation change efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) are methods that aim to change sexual orientation, used to try to convert homosexual and bisexual people to heterosexuality. They may include behavioral techniques, cognitive behavioral techniques, psychoanalytic techniques, medical approaches, religious and spiritual approaches, and, in some parts of the world, acts of sexual violence ("corrective rape"). There are no studies of adequate scientific rigor to conclude whether or not SOCE work to change sexual orientation. The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences, and the health and mental health professions, since the 1970s, is that homosexuality and bisexuality are per se normal and positive variations of human sexual orientation. The research consistently failed to provide a
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Sexual orientation change efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) are methods that aim to change sexual orientation, used to try to convert homosexual and bisexual people to heterosexuality. They may include behavioral techniques, cognitive behavioral techniques, psychoanalytic techniques, medical approaches, religious and spiritual approaches, and, in some parts of the world, acts of sexual violence ("corrective rape"). There are no studies of adequate scientific rigor to conclude whether or not SOCE work to change sexual orientation. The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences, and the health and mental health professions, since the 1970s, is that homosexuality and bisexuality are per se normal and positive variations of human sexual orientation. The research consistently failed to provide a
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Homotherapie (in het Engels "S ...... ka en Azië (China, Singapore).
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Sexual orientation change effo ...... se they claimed to be helping.
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جهود تغيير التوجه الجنسي وهي ع ...... صرين مثل كاليفورنيا و أوريغون.
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Homotherapie (in het Engels "S ...... ka en Azië (China, Singapore).
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Sexual orientation change effo ...... nsistently failed to provide a
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جهود تغيير التوجه الجنسي وهي ع ...... الأمراض الجنسية ونتيجة لذلك ظه
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Homotherapie
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Sexual orientation change efforts
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جهود تغيير التوجه الجنسي
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