"Cure"

[supergee]

About 40 years ago, a light went on over my head. Some shrink was talking about "curing homosexuals," and I finally thought to ask the next question: of what?

I have just been reminded of those quaint old precivilized days, by an article on how snorting oxytocin* can make people more outgoing. It concluded, "More research will clearly be needed before people would be prescribed oxytocin for introversion." Cure me of what?

*Thanx to The Agitator, Radley Balko, who offered the helpful reminder "That’s tocin, not contin"

Comments

[gramina]

*Definitely* the right question, re introversion! I would be interested to see if it might be helpful with severe social anxiety, though -- a friend of mine has that to a debilitating extent, and I do wish there were a reliable treatment for that. Oxytocin might help? Dunno.

p.s. I remember it by "oxytocin is released by touch"

[supergee]

I am in favor of letting people get treatment for things they perceive as problems, and I hope oxytocin will help those who want to be outgoing. I also think that people who really don't to be homosexual should be allowed to seek change.