Course 5
1.
Masturbation
Disguised Values
Therapy
Treating
Homosexuality
Homosexuality: Healthy or sick?
關鍵概述-陳腐而無據的定勢思維

1. 迷誤——人類正常的性狀態

同性戀:健康,還是有病?
同性戀這個單詞由匈牙利裔奧地利作家、同志權利宣導者K.M.柯爾特畢尼(K.M. Kertbeny )1869年首創[Benkert(本柯爾特)為原初姓氏,後不知何故改姓為Kertbeny(柯爾特畢尼)(參見Chronology of Sex Research: 1869),華裔美國性學家阮芳賦教授參照的文獻就是使用Benkert這一姓氏。參見:阮芳賦著.《性知識手冊》.北京:中醫古籍出版社,2002年,第147頁。——譯者注]他希望用這個術語來刻畫同性愛,認為同性愛是健康狀態。但是,其後不久,柏林精神病學家卡爾·韋斯特福爾(Carl Westphal)指定這種狀態為逆性別情感(contrary sexual feeling)”,並且宣稱它是疾病。在隨後的一個世紀裏,整個精神病學界採用了柯爾特畢尼的術語,但取斯特福爾的定性,認為同性戀者遭受著精神病痛,並且發明了各式各樣的治療方法。最後,到了1973年,美國精神病協會從其精神病診斷與統計手冊中刪除了這個診斷病名。從那一刻起,從前患病的同性戀男男女女們頃刻間就恢復了健康,這是一個在醫學史上最偉大的和最快速的群體治癒案例。(可是,這並未讓任何人獲得諾貝爾醫學獎。)

兩位性學先驅: /Two pioneers:

 
 

K.M.柯爾特畢尼(1824 -1882)1869年首創了單詞同性戀”      
K. M. Kertbeny (1824 -1882) invented the word "homosexual" in 1869

卡爾·韋斯特福爾(1833 - 1890)1870年創造了病名同性戀           Carl Westphal (1833 - 1890) invented the disease homosexuality in 1870

Critical Introduction - Old Silent Assumptions

1. The Myth of a "Natural" Human Sexuality

Homosexuality: Healthy or sick?
The word "homosexual" was invented by the Austrian-Hungarian writer and "gay rights" advocate K.M. Kertbeny in 1869. He wanted this term to characterize a healthy condition of loving one's own sex. Immediately thereafter, however, the Berlin psychiatrist Carl Westphal named this condition "contrary sexual feeling" and declared it to be a disease. For the next hundred years the entire psychiatric profession - adopting Kertbeny's term, but Westphal's characterization - considered homosexuals to be suffering from mental illness and devised various "cures". Finally, in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed the diagnosis from its manual. From that moment on, millions of formerly sick homosexual women and men were healthy again - the greatest and fastest mass cure in medical history. (However, this did not win anyone a Nobel prize for medicine).

[Course 5] [1. "Natural" Sexuality] ["Dysfunctions"] [Masturbation] [Disguised Values] [Therapy] [Treating "Deviance"] [Homosexuality]