Even Failed Therapy for Undesired Same-Sex Sexuality Results in No Harm, Finds New Study
Swiftly on the heels of his 2021 study showing sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) “strongly reduces suicidality” and that restriction on SOCE may “deprive sexual minorities of an important resource for reducing suicidality, putting them at substantially increased suicide risk,”[1],[2] Sociologist Paul Sullins’ new peer-reviewed analysis revealed, as per its title, an “Absence of Behavioral Harm Following Non-efficacious Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: A Retrospective Study of United States Sexual Minority Adults, 2016–2018.”[3] Sullins begins with a clear definition of SOCE: “Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) is a summary term for therapies or programs that support a change from same-sex to opposite-sex orientation in sexual attraction, identity, and/ or behavior.” As of 2016, the preferred terminology is not SOCE but SAFE-T (Sexual Attraction Fluidity Exploration in Therapy).[4] That was the first naming of it by actual competent professional practitioners. The popular