I asked the client to again tell me exactly what his experience was. He became very pensive. As a little boy, this client had been asthmatic and physically frail. When the client recognizes that these attractions actually represent same-sex identification needs, then the healing of homosexuality begins. This study analyzes recollections of family experiences through a statistical procedure called path analysis.
Some sources see a desire to interpret the data for gay-advocacy purposes.
If, in fact aspects of their family interaction and relationship data showed a departure from an ideal of optimal functioning in homosexual men, Bell, et al. He quotes a literary piece in which a man, trying to woo a woman, did so by killing her pet pigeons. Her intense arousal at the sight of the suffering pigeons contributed to her falling in love with her suitor. In this handbook, Ovid advises any man who is interested in sexual seduction to take the woman to a gladiatorial tournament, where she would be more easily aroused with passion. The fetishes, in fact, he sees not as disorders, but as reflections of arbitrary cultural prejudices.