Posted by Quintal on March 15, 2007, at 12:24:15 [reposted on March 24, 2007, at 22:46:25 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Scientology, Homosexuality, and its tentacles » Quintal, posted by Ken Blades on March 15, 2007, at 7:43:57
Thank you for the link Ken, it contains the same information listed on the Wiki site I posted earlier. Maybe they used that page as one of their sources?
I'm not very taken by the Scientology methods as a whole, but that particular passage on homosexuality has resonance for me. Hubbard's view was not original - as stated it reflects the ideas held by psychiatry and their attitude towards homosexuals at that time. My mother's old 1959 Psychology has similar theories, but the proposed cures are much harsher. They seem to be proposing the 'Psychosexual Hermaphroditism' theory of homosexuality here.
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UNNATURAL ATTRACTION
Inversion or homosexuality;
This is the emotional 'love' for a member of the same sex, with or without physical gratification. There are a few people of both sexes who by reason of glandular abnormalities are not properly differentiated into one sex or the other. These 'feminine' men and 'masculine' women may have the physical sexual formation of one sex but the emotional disposition of the other, and so may be manifestly homosexual. It should not be thought however, that all men who look feminine, or all women who look masculine are homosexual, for this is emphatically not so. Much more commonly homosexuality is determined by an obstruction of emotional growth at the undifferentiated adolescent stage, or regression (a harking back) to that stage of development of sexual emotion. As has been pointed out, there is a tendency for the sexes to be segregated at this mid-adolescent stage, so attachments to persons of the same sex are easily established. Homosexual tendencies may start at this stage because of obstruction or regression which are determined by conflicts and guilt feelings. As a rule, these are due to bogey teaching, or absence of teaching on sexual matters, or to terrifying experiences before the child has reached an appropriate stage of sexual maturity so that the patient fear the next advance towards the full development of his, or her, sexual life.
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