“Even without therapy, many people around the world have experienced changes in their patterns of attraction and behavior.”
Dr. Paul Sullins, Senior Research Associate at the Ruth Institute, recently published “Sex Differences in Reported Effectiveness and Psychosocial Effects of Therapy-Assisted Sexual Orientation Change.”
His analysis shows:
- All the individuals in this sample had reduced their same sex behavior to “slight” or none.
- Although most sought out supportive therapy, 41% changed their same sex sexual behavior with no sexual reorientation therapy.
- Therapy affected men and women differently. Women were more likely to have strongly reduced same sex attraction than men, 88% v. 39%.
- Therapy to change sexual orientation sometimes brings relief from other psychologically troubling issues, most notably reductions in depression for women and reductions in self-harm for men.
