Comments on: Anti-Gays Rely on Masters and Johnson http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/04/23/10892 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Thomas Kraemer http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/04/23/10892/comment-page-1#comment-39065 Thomas Kraemer Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:36:35 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=10892#comment-39065 I don't know if this is mentioned in Maier's book, but nobody I've read has prominently noted that Masters attributed his successful ex-gay conversions to the "screening process" and on page 340 of his book he emphasizes that applicants for ex-gay therapy "must be screened for motivation in order to maintain a therapy failure rate at reasonably low levels." -- see Google Book Search tinyurl.com/c453ut Of course, this type of unscientific criteria has always been common in the medical community. Patients who don't get cured can be blamed for not being motivated enough or accused of being "noncompliant" patients. (i.e. a patient who didn't follow the doctor's orders) I don’t know if this is mentioned in Maier’s book, but nobody I’ve read has prominently noted that Masters attributed his successful ex-gay conversions to the “screening process” and on page 340 of his book he emphasizes that applicants for ex-gay therapy “must be screened for motivation in order to maintain a therapy failure rate at reasonably low levels.” — see Google Book Search tinyurl.com/c453ut

Of course, this type of unscientific criteria has always been common in the medical community. Patients who don’t get cured can be blamed for not being motivated enough or accused of being “noncompliant” patients. (i.e. a patient who didn’t follow the doctor’s orders)

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