Poland: Facts and Myths Can You Change a Sexual Orientation?

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No. Sexual orientation can not be changed. That's the way to change sexual orientation does not exist, it has been scientifically confirmed. Once, doctors used controversial methods that were based, for example, on electric shock or forcing patients to enter into a heterosexual relationship. These activities did not change the orientation but caused for this a lot of pain and humiliation.

This is confirmed by the World Health Organization, the American Psychological Association and Psychiatry and the Polish Psychological Association, which speaks for this the topic unambiguously: "Promoting therapies involving correction and conversion or the reparation of homosexual or bisexual orientation towards a purely heterosexual one inconsistent with modern knowledge about human sexuality and can bear fruit serious adverse psychological effects on people undergoing this type interactions. "

IS HOMOEXUALITY HEALTHY?

Yes. Homosexuality is just as normal human trait as eye color, freckles or law or left-handedness. For several dozen years, researchers studied the influence of sexual orientation on life. Their research has shown that being a gay, lesbian or bisexual person has no effect on how a person feels, learns and how they interact with other people. Only, what distinguishes homosexual people from heterosexual people is that they love this person same sex, what they are.

The Polish Sexological Society has issued a position in this matter states that "... heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual orientation are treated as the correct development variants of human sexuality. Like people heterosexual, homosexual persons have the right to use medical services and psychological, however, the indication for treatment should in no case be Sexual orientation of these people. "

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