ABSTRACT
I address four questions—methodological, ethical, and conceptual/theoretical—raised by Spitzer’s courageous report on 200 subjects claiming post-therapy changes in sexual orientation from homosexuality toward heterosexuality:
Are subjects’ responses dismissable as lies or self-deceptions, as some critics claim?
Is the study’s design too weak to show anything of scientific interest, as critics also claim?
Does the study imply that reorientation therapy is sometimes ethically allowable, contrary to recent professional association edicts?
Do the data demonstrate change in core sexual orientation itself, as Spitzer claims?
