Should Lesley Pilkington be struck off?

[sp1814]

http://www.telegraph....-men-go-straight.html

She claims to be able to turn gay men straight via counselling, and agrees that homosexuality as "a mental illness, an addiction and antireligious phenomenon”.

However...if a gay man or woman is genuinely unhappy being gay and wants to seek counselling for a 'cure', shouldn't they have the option?

Or is this reinforcing the idea that homosexuality is a mental illness and that all people are really heterosexual underneath?

[Kromovaracun]

Sqad: Absolutely. As far as I'm aware (though my knowledge of it is about 4/5 years out of date) the scientific investigation into it has thrown up lots of possibilities, but it's very far from conclusive (aside from the ruling out of prevailing hormonal explanations back in the '70s/80s). But the questions they've raised are certainly a lot more compelling than any 'nurture' theorists that I'm aware of have come up with.

Personally, I'm certain I was born gay. I was raised in a loving, stable household, and never thought of my father as absent or my mother as over-bearing (the usual preconditions for psychological explanations). I can't remember ever not feeling attracted to the same sex, and I didn't really know much about homosexuality until after I came out at 17. Hence it kind of gets under my skin when people make assertions about the nature/nurture argument.

[McMouse]

I have no idea whether homosexuals are born or made, nor do I know whether the condition is curable. I do know that some homosexuals mince around and talk in a most affected manner and it makes me feel nauseous.

[DrFilth]

i think it is the way i type sometimes :)

[DrFilth]

McMouse some of your jokes have made me feel nauseous but i still like you :)

[McMouse]

DrF........I always aim to set the bar low.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// The supposed interchangability between the words gay and AIDS has long since been shown to be false.///

Or was it a big cover-up when it caused such a rumpus amongst the Gay community.

Seems funny when Aids reared it's ugly head, there were so many well know gay actors, musicians, and other celebrities stricken down with the disease?

[jackthehat]

<<Or was it a big cover-up when it caused such a rumpus amongst the Gay community.>>
No.

I don't propose to continue to bang my head against the wall of your ill-informed opinion.
Suffice to say, I think we can see where HIV/AIDS is 'trending' these days.

And once more, we are wallowing in the depths of yet another of the subjects routinely dragged into any discussion about gay issues.

[ummmm]

HIV spreads easier when anal sex is involved. This is because it's more likely to cause tears during sex. So it was more likely to spread amongst the 'gay male' community than hetrosexual.

So if that true...it's the bi-sexuals that are the problem...

Or....keep it in your pants.

Or...shut up talking nonsense.

Or...accept people for who and what they are instead of looking for excuses to dislike them.

[Sqad]

Kromo.........that puts your experience very clearly.