rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) (06/22/84)
Pardon me if I'm restating things others have said, but Rich has made one serious error of fact, when he said (words to the effect of): "Homosexuals are only that way by choice. If they wanted to change, they could." Unfortunately, this is not the case. I am friends with a person who has worked in a professional counseling agency/service. Among the people who come in are persons who are homosexual in tendancies, but desperately do NOT want to be. Some would give anything to be rid of feelings that they think are "evil" or "sinful" or "degenerate." Some of them even have lovers (MOTSS and MOTOS) who are kind, caring, and so forth, but whom they secretly hate. Needless to say, these people have serious problems, but foremost among those problems is the inability to master their feelings. These people have tried psychoanalysis, group therapy, religious counseling, drugs, you-name-it. And they simply seem UNABLE to change. (BTW: the reason I became interested in this is that these people appear to put a serious hole is Sartre's "freedom" hypothesis, something I'm not too happy about. But that's a topic for another newsgroup.) --Alan Wexelblat (Who's Afraid of? The Art of Noise!) mail to ...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw Please put "For Alan" in mail headers.