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Scientists now know that our sexuality is hard-wired into our genes. But psychologists and clergy have long tried to “cure” gay people of their “orientation,” sometimes through aversion therapy of the kind seen in the movie “A Clockwork Orange.” In the U.K., this was even paid for by the National Health Services. What were the results?

Brian Wheeler writes in bbcnews.com that, according to psychiatrist Michael Knight, there were many “biological treatments for homosexuality,” until recently. In the 1920s, German medical researchers implanted testicles from corpses into the bodies of homosexual men, in order to increase testosterone levels. Knight says, “They were told they were going to have an operation, but not what was going to be done to them.”
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A change in temperature is all it takes for genetically-engineered male flies to switch from being heterosexual to homosexual. The change occurs within minutes and is reversible. This discovery will help scientists figure out how the brain may be involved in determining sexual orientation.
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