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Ex-gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation. Stanton L. Jones

Can some motivated people alter aspects of their sexuality through religious ministry? With the publication of Ex-Gays? Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse have produced the most rigorous study to date to address this question. Knowing their results would generate controversy, the authors have thoroughly described the rationale for their procedures. While the authors fully acknowledge that change in sexual attractions did not occur for some individuals, they offer cogent and compelling reasons to believe that participation in religious ministry resulted in durable changes for others. The Jones and Yarhouse study will set the standard for all future work in this field and demands a serious reading from social scientists. For anyone interested in the study of sexuality, values and human change, this book is a must-read." -- Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy, Grove City College, coauthor of the Sexual Identity Therapy Framework, and producer of I Do Exist

EX-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study And Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics And Culture. Jack Drescher and Kenneth Zucker

"A MUST-READ for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, ethicists, sociologists, political scientists, and researchers of every sort." -- Paul Jay Fink, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine

"At last, a single publication about attempts to change sexual orientation." -- Robert Paul Cabaj, MD, Director, San Francisco Community Behavioral Health Services