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CNN segment has been postponed
According to Richard Cohen, the CNN segment scheduled to air tonight will not air as planned. No word on a reschedule date.
FOLLOW UP: The Paula Zahn Now segment is now slated for tonight – 5/23/06
New blog for the sexual identity therapy guidelines
To give the guidelines their own identity (they were whining about being here), I created a blog for them. Moderated by Dr. Yarhouse and me, we will keep the focus on comments and endorsements regarding the guidelines.
CNN to air segment on reparative therapy Monday, May 22.
CNN is set to air a segment regarding reparative therapy on Monday night, May 22, some time between 8-9pm. It will be during the Paula Zahn Show. The segment includes interviews with Richard Cohen, one of Cohen’s clients, Robert Spitzer and Jack Drescher.
Another Press Snafu: The UPI misinterprets the lesbian story
As if to say, “me too!” The UPI is taking its turn at incorrectly reporting the Savic pheromone study. Here is what the UPI report said:
Lesbians like men – with major difference
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) — Lesbians react to body odors like heterosexual men but with an important difference — they are not sexually aroused, Swedish researchers say.
In a study of lesbians who smelled a derivative of progesterone found in male sweat and an estrogen-like steroid found in female urine, the female compound activated the hypothalamus among the 12 lesbians, researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute reported.
While the reaction was like that of heterosexual males, the lesbians’ response was different in that they were not sexually aroused, said the study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
That differs from earlier studies by the Swedish team, which found gay men and heterosexual women react to male sweat in the same way.
“This observation could favor the view that male and female homosexuality are different,” lead researcher Ivanka Savic told The New York Times.
One problem: the Savic study states specifically that the participants did not report sexual arousal. None of them, not just the lesbians.
ADDENDUM: I requested a review and correction and I just heard from the UPI that they did so.