Peer Commentaries on Spitzer (2003)

• Published in: Archives of sexual behavior 2003-10, Vol.32 (5), p.419
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Sexual orientation discrimination; Sexuality
• ISSN: 0004-0002; 1573-2800
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1025699511081

Can Sexual Orientation Change? A Long-Running Saga (By John Bancroft); Understanding the Self-Reports of Reparative Therapy "Successes" (By A. Lee Beckstead); The Malleability of Homosexuality: A Debate Long Overdue (By A. Dean Byrd); A Methodological Critique of Spitzer's Research on Reparative Therapy (By Helena M. Carlson); Are Converts to Be Believed? Assessing Sexual Orientation "Conversions" (By Kenneth M. Cohen and Ritch C. Savin-Williams); Reconsidering "Sexual Desire" in the Context of Reparative Therapy (By Lisa M. Diamond); The Spitzer Study and the Culture Wars (By Jack Drescher); Sexual Orientation Change: A Study of Atypical Cases (By Richard C. Friedman); The Politics of Sexual Choices (By John H. Gagnon); Too Flawed: Don't Publish (By Lawrence Hartmann); Evaluating Interventions to Alter Sexual Orientation: Methodological and Ethical Considerations (By Gregory M. Herek); Guttman Scalability Confirms the Effectiveness of Reparative Therapy (By Scott L. Hershberger); Methodological Limitations Do Not Justify the Claim That Same-Sex Attraction Changed Through "Reparative Therapy" (By Craig A. Hill and Jeannie D. DiClementi); Initiating Treatment Evaluations (By Donald F. Klein); A Positive View of Spitzer's Research and an Argument for Further Research (By Richard B. Krueger); Penile Plethysomography and Change in Sexual Orientation (By Nathaniel McConaghy); Finally, Recognition of a Long-Neglected Population (By Joseph Nicolosi); Sexual Orientation Change and Informed Consent in Reparative Therapy (By Bruce Rind); Reparative Science and Social Responsibility: The Concept of a Malleable Core as Theoretical Challenge and Psychological Comfort (By Paula C. Rodríguez Rust); A Candle in the Wind: Spitzer's Study of Reparative Therapy (By Donald S. Strassberg); Spitzer's Oversight: Ethical-Philosophical Underpinnings of "Reparative Therapy" (By Marcus C. Tye); Sexual Diversity and Change Along a Continuum of Bisexual Desire (By Paul L. Vasey and Drew Rendall); Science and the Nuremberg Code: A Question of Ethics and Harm (By Milton L. Wainberg, Donald Bux, Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Gary W. Dowsett, Terry Dugan, Marshall Forstein, Karl Goodkin, Joyce Hunter, Thomas Irwin, Paulo Mattos, Karen McKinnon, Ann O'Leary, Jeffrey Parsons, and Edward Stein); Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Is It Ever Ethical? Can It Ever Change Sexual Orientation? (By Jerome C. Wakefield); Heterosexual Identities, Sexual Reorientation Therapies, and Science (By Roger L. Worthingt