Group therapy
I don’t even know where to begin with this other than I wonder if he also has a technique for people who want to ‘become gay.’ [For those unaccustomed to recognizing sarcasm, you have just experienced it.]
Experts Split Over ‘Bizarre’ Sexual Orientation Therapy Techniques
Christian psychotherapist Richard Cohen, board president of the ex-homosexual education and outreach organization known as Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), is addressing criticism leveled against certain therapy techniques he uses on clients with homosexual desires.
Cohen, a former homosexual and the author of the book Coming Out Straight (Oakhill Press, 2005), insists that no one is born with homosexual desires. He claims his reparative therapy group, the International Healing Foundation (IHF), has helped many men and women with unwanted homosexual desires achieve their goal of changing their sexual orientation and becoming heterosexual.
It is not a choice to have homosexual desires, the IHF director contends, but it is a choice to act upon those desires. He says those unwanted homosexual feelings are the result of temperament, familial influence, and environmental or social conditioning, all of which can be addressed through specific therapeutic principles and practices.
Cohen’s methods have raised some questions, however; and he has lately taken sharp criticism over a May 23 appearance on Cable News Network (CNN), in which he demonstrated a technique that involves cuddling a male client in his lap. Another of the unusual therapy techniques depicted involved a client hitting a pillow with a tennis racket while shouting the name of a parent or other individual who elicits painful childhood memories.
“no one is born with homosexual desires” is probably right. Being a non-expert in either gay or doctoral things, I’m going to take a wild guess and say they come about most likely at puberty when sexual desire of any kind develops.
You know, I think we’re past the whole homosexual thing. It’s done…stick a fork in it. Let’s move on to the next big thing to incense the entire country to hate.
I mean, hating homosexuals is so 1980′s….get with the times people.
Oh, and OldDug…the Bible does say all kinds of things about “a man sleeping with another man” being an abomination and other types of things. Of course, it says nothing about women sleeping with other women. And the Bible was pretty specific…it was talking about Men…not mankind. So I guess it’s ok to be a lesbian but not a gay guy? But then again, when the bible was being written and edited, women were more like cattle than actual humans.
Or better yet, you could just throw away the Bible as outdated myth that has not one iota on today’s world at all.
It sounds like this doctor uses his “techniques” to satisfy his own sexual desire that he claims to have represses. Most persons who are gay that I have dealt with, and that is the main thrust of my ministry to affirm that God loves all of His children and wants them to be active in the faith community, knew from as early as four that they were actracted to the same sex even though they did not know what sex was all about.
This supposed cure is a farce and many of those that claim they have been cured are trolling the internet, rest areas, gay bars and other places in the hopes that they will not be found out.
It is much healthier for a person to accept how God created them and to then use that gift of sexuality in a healthy committed relationship.
The photo: Disturbing. A demented, way too close conga line.
As far as I can remember I liked bears, those balding, paunchy, hairy men.
Plus, homosexuality is present in nature, so it’s a natural thing.
Those who claim that some homos/lesbians can be cured are wrong, that just means that those persons are bisexual.
The problem radicates in that both str8t and gay folk shun bisexuals; the both saying that Bisexuals are just closeted homos/lesbos.
Human sexuality is way more complex than just sticking object A into orifice B.
We say “cure” as if being homosexual is some sort of disease. No one can help who they are attracted to nor can we simply change how someone feels.
Doesn’t gay rights seem familiar….Civil rights anyone? We should stop those that use a book writen hundreds of years ago to establish laws which oppress people who have done nothing wrong, or we will be no better than those who allowed racist whites to establish the Jim Crow Laws.
#22, Rev. Robert. You raise some good points and I suspect you and your church welcomes gays as equals. Unfortunately too many in the “faith community” don’t hold the same beliefs and instead rail against them as an abomination. Recently the Anglican Church was almost split because of the “Gay Ministers” questions. It is almost like they and their donations are welcome but please sit at the back of the church.
#4 Harry -
How does one “choose” to have an erection for one sex as opposed to the other?
Regarding that picture — I’ve seen that exercise before, it’s nothing perverted. It’s a “group sit”. People stand in a circle all facing the same way, then all sit down on each others’ laps simultaneously. It can be done if everyone does it at once. I think the lesson is about interdependence, etc.
So you think it’s a choice to be gay? So a straight man can wake up and decide he is now going to like dick? LOL Oh yeah, being gay is great. Why would anybody WANT to be gay? I get to deal with the bigotry, hatred, intolerance and ignorance of so many people. Religion is completely evil. It preaches hate… don’t be such a sheep and live your life by some fictional, man-made dogma that serves only to control you.