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JOURNAL OF HUMAN SEXUALITY Volume 15, 2024
Feature Articles
The “Reluctant Activist:” How an Idaho Counselor Mom Pushed Back on the Social Justice Agenda and How Other States Can Follow.
Peggy McFarland
This article recounts my journey as a “reluctant activist,” a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) thrown into a crisis of conscience when I discovered that Optum Behavioral Health, the state Medicaid administrator, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the Idaho Counseling Association (ICA), and other associations were promoting “social justice,” a political worldview that requires therapists to embrace and encourage the sexualization of children. [Read More]
An Analysis of the Retracted Article by Rabak and Lan (2023): A Challenge for Peer Review and Scientific Integrity
Walter R. Schumm
An article, allegedly by Rabak and Lan (2023), was retracted after its authors confessed to its research as fabricated (Rabak & Lan, 2024). Possibly the authors meant to create a “win, win” catch-22 trap situation where if the fabricated paper was accepted, it would seem to discredit a journal in which Sullins (2015) had published a controversial article. But if it was rejected, the authors could have claimed the journal was biased against papers with LGBT topics, which might also seem to discredit the journal and Sullins (2015).
Notably, the editor and reviewers for Sullins (2015) were not the same as those for Rabak and Lan (2023), limiting whatever point was at issue. Furthermore, numerous top-tier journals have published articles later retracted, negating the idea that a journal is “fake” just because one of its articles is later retracted or had included fabricated data or results. [Read More]
Nature and Nurture: Same-Sex Attraction
Gary Bondy
Since homosexuality, here referred to as same-sex attraction (SSA), was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in 1973, mixed results were provided from studies on SSA etiology. This paper attempts to unpack and critically examine some recent SSA etiology research from both nature (biological) and nurture (interactions between non-social and social environments with biology). [Read More]
Care for Non-Heterosexuality in the Current Asian Landscape
Christopher Rosik
An Interview with Bryan Shen Bryan Shen who is both a lay missionary and a counselor/supervisor registered with the Singapore Association for Counseling. He trains counselors, counsels in Thai or English and has given educational talks to clergy, seminaries and family life ministries of many religious groups in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
In this interview with Christopher Rosik, Bryan shares about his background, his work with Asians experiencing unwanted same-sex attractions, and his assessment of the current cultural and religious tensions around non-heterosexuality in Asia. [Read More]
Transgender Trauma: A Teenage Detransitioner’ s First-Hand Account
Christopher H. Rosik
Jane (not her real name) is a 15-year-old girl who recently detransitioned after several years of pursuing a transgender identity. She expressed a desire to her mother, Kim (also a pseudonym), to share her story with a larger audience and thereby in some way redeem the trauma she has experienced in her encounter with transgender ideology. Since her family was known to me, she reached out through her mother to see if there was a way I could communicate her experiences to others, and the idea for this interview and its placement in the journal was borne. Jane provided this interview, along with her mother’s input, in mid-July of 2024.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Andrew J. Rodriquez - Review of Sam Jolman’s The Sex Talk You Never Got: Reclaiming the Heart of Masculine Sexuality [Read More]
Christopher H. Rosik - Review of The Cass Review: Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Final Report) [Read More]
Keith Vennum - Review of Richard Cohen’s A Therapist’s Guide: Assisting those with Same Sex Attraction & their Loved Ones [Read More]
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