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This 5 page paper examines beliefs about homosexuality in the 1970s. It concludes with a brief comment on how things have changed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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difficult task facing a human being. This paper takes the point of view of a young man in the 1970s who is wondering about his sexual identity. Discussion Psychologists and
scientists agree that almost everyone, no matter what their orientation is, has some homosexual experience as a teenager. In the vast majority of these cases, the person is experimenting out
of curiosity about sex itself, not about orientation. Because opposite sex partners are not generally available at that age, young people instead turn to friends of the same sex for
exploration. This behavior usually it stops when heterosexual orientation begins. The point is, some homosexual behavior is normal (whatever "normal" means); its when the behavior becomes exclusively homosexual that the
person might wonder about their orientation. Our young man in the 1970s would have found a lot of information on homosexuality, but mostly coming from a scientific perspective, or even
a perspective that wanted to "cure" homosexuality. Famous sex researchers Masters and Johnson published a book entitled Homosexuality in Perspective in which they said, among other things, that they had
had "surprising success rates in reversing or converting homosexual individuals to heterosexuals with the help of just two weeks of sex therapy and psychotherapy at their laboratories in St. Louis
(Homosexuality: Help for those who want it, 1979, p. 275). Masters and Johnson claim that only 33% of those they treated "failed to achieve heterosexual behavior," a failure rate "lower
than the original expectation" (Homosexuality: Help for those who want it, 1979, p. 275). However, the results of this study are "so fraught with qualifications and disclaimers that Masters and
Johnson themselves are reluctant to discuss the findings in terms of success" (Homosexuality: Help for those who want it, 1979, p. 275). In the first place, the researchers call their
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