The desensitization of a homosexual |
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| Authors: | F W Huff |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1158 Faculty Office Tower, 510 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35210, USA;2. Division of Plastic Surgery, Birmingham VA Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1102 Faculty Office Tower, 510 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35210, USA;1. Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia;2. Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia;3. Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Abstract: | Ramsay and van Velzen (1968) made the point that, theoretically at least, desensitization therapy appeared to be the treatment of choice for homosexuality; yet they were unable to find a case where it had been used. They reasoned that if homosexuality was, even in part, a sexual adjustment necessitated by an irrational fear of the opposite sex, as many would claim, then desensitization of this phobia should open up the way to a more socially acceptable heterosexual adjustment.From this same rationale, aversion therapy, which has recently proved very popular in the treatment of sexual deviations (cf. Feldman, 1966), would appear less appropriate. In aversion therapy with homosexuals the same sex is rendered fearsome too, leaving no interpersonal avenue open for sexual expression.The following case shows in an objective fashion that, at least in this one instance, homosexuality was in some complex way functionally related to fear of the opposite sex, and further that when this fear was lessened by desensitization, heterosexual approaches began to be made. |
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