Book Review / Being 'homosexual'
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...by Richard Isay on the development of the gay man. During the course of twenty years, Isay worked with forty homosexual men, some in their adolescent years. The first point the author makes is that homosexuality is not an illness, physical or mental, but society's aversion to this life style leaves men who find they have sexual feelings for other men feeling shamed and embarrassed, as though something is wrong with them. To emphasize his premise he points to some of the greatest thinkers or creators who were gay such as Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Plato. He also quotes Freud who said that homosexuality, while not an advantage, could not be classified as an illness. Isay attempts to draw some conclusions regarding family history and gay men; his patients all had fathers who were abusive towards their mother and them, who were victimized by the other, who were not home very often, or who ignored them when they were children. He also found that gay men fantasized almost exclusively about men, sometimes their fathers, when they masturbated as adolescents and that most boys reported sexual feelings towards other boys as young as four or five years old. Isay...
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