"Pray the gay away" camp statistics?

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My dad was telling me how the "pray the gay away" camps work, and when I said they just mind f*ck the kids, he said that was BS. I'd love for someone to send me a link of reliable statistics just so I can prove him wrong. Sending kids to an indoctrination camp to "save their souls" is a load of crap, but it's hard to argue (especially when your dad's an attorney) without statistics.

Thanks in advance. 

Thanks

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Absolutely everyone everywhere of any medical authority says they do not work and infact tend to cause problems. Self-reported rate of failure is 88%. That is, 88% of the time even the people who go through the therapy say nothing changed. 3% report significant changes. Sadly, that number dwindles because of the alarmingly high suicide rate in that group.

Also they go about it by essentially torturing you. Drugs that make you sick, electric shocks, and on and on.

the Attorney General of the United States stated "while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable".

In a position paper released May 17, 2012, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) stated that services that aim to "cure" people with a non-heterosexual sexual orientation lack medical justification and represent a serious threat to the health and well-being of affected people, and noted that there is a professional consensus that homosexuality is a natural variation of human sexuality and cannot be regarded as a pathological condition.

Alex · Answer

Of course it is impossible to change how someone feels inside but that does not mean one can not try to abstain from engaging in that type of lifestyle. In life we are tempted all the time by things we know are wrong but we have to have the resilience to say no. It is wrong and unnatural to go through life like that and if you are that way you should try to abstain in engaging in that behavior. I know it would be difficult to, and there is little chance you could try to become attracted to the opposite sex, but you have to do your best to try and fight these distorted ideas of what is normal. There is counseling and people who can help you stay on the right track. If you choose to live that lifestyle so be it, but know that you are doing something you shouldn't and don't have to do.

Zunden · Answer

Check out the APA and WHO websites. They usually have statements and links you could look through for studies on the subject.

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"Pray the gay away" camp statistics?

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