Position statements of the major mental health organizations in the United States state that there is no scientific evidence that a homosexual sexual orientation can be changed by psychotherapy, often referred to as "reparative therapy." This study tested the hypothesis that some individuals whose sexual orientation is predominantly homosexual can, with some form of reparative therapy, become p...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE There is concern that use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may be linked to increased sexual risk behaviour among homosexual men. We investigated sexual risk behaviour in HIV positive homosexual men and the relation between use of HAART and risk of HIV transmission. METHODS A cross sectional study of 420 HIV positive homosexual men attending a London outpat...

The prevalence of gonococcal infection of the pharynx in 205 women, 331 heterosexual men, and 11 homosexual men with gonorrhoea was 6.8%, 4.2%, and 27.3% respectively. In only one patient, a heterosexual man, was the pharynx the sole site of infection. Throat symptoms were found in 7% of women, 21% of heterosexual men, and none of the homosexual men. Orogenital contact was reported by 29% of wo...

[T]he brains of both homosexual and heterosexual maleto-female transsexuals probably differ from the brains of typical heterosexual men, but in different ways. In homosexual male-to-female transsexuals, the difference does involve sex-dimorphic structures, and the nature of the difference is a shift in the female-typical direction. If there is any neuroanatomic intersexuality, it is in the homo...

While working with homosexual couples, professionals have to recognize specific conditions they live in and the characteristics of their relation dynamics. Patterns elaborated for working with heterosexual couples are often useless in the case of homosexual couples and may even lead to a misunderstanding of their behaviours. This especially refers to the roles they play in the couples, the prob...

Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) are different in several special populations of subjects. For females having opposite-sex co-twins (OSDZ females) and for homosexual and bisexual females, OAEs are masculinized. Certain AEP measures from homosexual and bisexual females also are masculinized. Certain AEP measures from homosexual males are hypermasculinized. These...

Abstract The decriminalisation of homosexuality was a measure originally adopted by the bourgeois revolutions, which abandoned parties as rise labour movement led bourgeoisie to seek compromise with landlords, clergy and monarchy in different countries. demand decriminalise therefore taken over Marxist workers’ parties, such Social-Democratic Party Germany before First World War Bolshevik Russi...

Este artículo analiza la conciliación de elementos cultura popular y tradición literaria a través una enunciación abiertamente homosexual en Poesida (1996), del escritor mexicano Abigael Bohórquez (1936-1995). La conjunción estos perfila al autor como un poeta singular el campo literario década 1990 crear poesía política desde espacio íntimo. Para dar cuenta lo anterior, primero trazamos geneal...

OBJECTIVES To describe trends in HIV notifications and in other measures of HIV incidence in homosexual men in developed countries. METHODS A literature search was conducted using PubMed. In addition to the peer-reviewed literature, data on HIV surveillance trends were sought by searching websites of surveillance authorities in developed countries. RESULTS The availability of long-term HIV ...