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Summary: The truth hurts, but sets you free
Review: Van Den Aardweg presents a cogent and very well informed account of the experience of homosexual attraction, evidently based on a lifetime of work with those suffering from the disorder. (Granted, to call homosexuality a "disorder" is to take a position with which many today disagree--wrongly, I would contend.) Although the author sounds a bit harsh at times--which may be the work of his translator--his observations and advice are nonetheless true and ultimately compassionate. For a person, a Catholic or other traditional Christian especially, who wishes to escape compulsive habits of homosexual lust, fantasy, and selfish affection-seeking, Van Den Aardweg is excellent reading. While one or two reviewers have accused him of "psycho-babble," relatively little of this book is actually taken up with psychological theory. Rather, as the title suggests, this volume is a practical manual for the very difficult struggle against sexual immaturity. It is well complemented by Fr. John Harvey's "The Homosexual Persons" and "The Truth About Homosexuality," both of which are also from an unapologetically Catholic vantage point but which place additional emphasis on the necessity of grace for human conversion.
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Summary: Another Quack Making a Buck Selling A Book
Review: Yet another psychobabble specialist who, lacking any other topic that sells to desparate people, decides to pontificate about homosexuals to make a buck selling books.
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