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Summary: IGNORANT AND HURTFUL: A BIGGOTED VIEW OF GAYS AND LESBIANS
Review: THIS BOOK AND OTHERS LIKE IT ASSUME THAT HOMOSEXUALS ARE MISGUIDED AND EASILY-INFLUENCED FOLLOWERS IN A CULTURE THAT PROMOTES IMMORALITY AND PERVERSION. IT MAKES ME SICK THAT THIS IS A GUIDE FOR PARENTS. IF YOU TRY TO PREVENT YOUR CHILDREN FROM BEING WHO THEY ARE NATURALLY, YOU ARE DOING A DIS-SERVICE TO YOURSELF, THEM, AND THE GOD THAT MADE THEM. IGNORANCE AND HATE ONLY PREVENT A PEACEFUL AND LOVING WORLD. IT IS NOT WRONG TO LOVE. IT IS NOT WRONG TO BE TRUTHFUL. SEEKING PREVENTION FROM SOMETHING INEVITABLE IS MASKING THE SADDEST LIE THAT CAN BE TOLD. AND ISN'T A LIE ALSO A SIN? ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, NO ONE SIN CAN OUTWEIGH THE OTHER, EXCEPT FOR DENYING GOD. SO IN ESSENCE, LYING TO YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN IS EQUALLY AS BAD AS HOMOSEXUALITY ITSELF. YOU CANNOT READ A BOOK AND MAKE THE HURDLES OF LIFE DISAPPEAR. AFTER ALL, COULD YOU BE PREVENTED FROM BEING STRAIGHT?? FROM BEING BLACK OR WHITE? FROM LIVING IN AMERICA OR IRAQ? THESE ARE NOT CHOICES. THEY ARE REALITY. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON A BOOK WHICH SELLS LIES AND WILL ULTIMATLEY BE A LET-DOWN (because you will NOT change your child's emotions, no matter how many books you buy) LIVE WITH THE REALITY THAT LIFE THAT IS LIVED AS IT SHOULD BE IS BEAUTIFUL, AND LOVE IS NEVER WRONG.
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Summary: If You Love Your Kids This Book Is Critical
Review: From someone who actually deals with these issues daily this book hits the nail on the head. I wish my dad had known and did what Nicolosi writes about (and my Mom as well). If fathers everwhere did what Nicolosi recommends and what John Eldredge recommends, in Wild at Heart, the incidence and onset of male homosexuality would plummet, in absolute terms. This book will offer insight also for adult strugglers who seek to understand what happened to them and want to develop strategies to embrace freedom, healing, and true life.
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Summary: A Truely Harmful Book
Review: I have read this book and as a psychologist, I feel that this book will do more harm than good. It goes against the scientific literature and makes baseless claims. It is a vehicle for an organization (NARTH) that has been debased on all accounts. The advice in this book has been shown not to impact sexual orientation in numerous well designed studies. The "scientific studies" that are used in this book have significant flaws in design and methodology that make the resulting data useless. Don't waste you money on this one.
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Summary: A practical help
Review: The author takes an unorthodox approach to this difficult issue. While many if not most in the psychological community seek to reassure parents that homosexual behavior & preference is normal in some teens, Nicolosi brings an approach that is helpful in understanding the deep emotional issues that contribute to children who are confused about their sexuality. One of Nicolosi's premises is that the father's relationship with the son is crucial. Drawing upon a multitude of counseling experiences, real hope is offered to those who seek help and understanding.
There have been many cases of people that have been helped in their desire to leave the homosexual lifestyle. This is one example of help that is available to parents who are concerned with their child'ss homosexual tendencies.
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Summary: PFOX.ORG likes this book
Review: PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays) applauds this progressive book. We hope it will help many families and increase tolerance for the ex-gay community.
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Summary: The Epitome of Hypocrisy
Review: Amazing, Christian based book.I guess this book wasn't passed onto the priests? Great play guys. *golf clap*
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Summary: avoiding dumb books
Review: a silly, extremely close-minded and paranoid work guaranteed to preserve the status quo of messing people up while they're young so that they will then rush off to see PhD's like Nicolosi when they're older. Call it planned obsolescence for minds. I had explored this book assuming it was parody. It then started to read like a Benny Hinn sermon. The combination of the title with mentions of his wife caused me to wonder: "Are we trying a little too hard to establish or prove our heterosexuality?" Here's a little secret on encouraging homosexuality: worry about your children becoming who they were intended to be and impress these worries on them on a daily basis. Nothing works better than forbidden fruits!
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Summary: Horrid Hate Filled book equal to Mein Kampf
Review: This book does nothing but further societal hate and prejudice on an already oppressed and misunderstood minority. This is not science; it's hate. Statistics show that the number one reason for young people commit suicide is the direct result of their parent's refusing to accept their sexuality. This book has nothing positive to offer; unless you are a closed minded, right-wing fanatic who would rather see your children commit suicide rather than live a health productive life. Hitler had the same ideas this author had.
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Summary: Mixed Feelings
Review: The book has a purpose to serve in society, because it cannot be successfully proven by any group that homosexuality is genetic. I believe, personally, that in no case is it genetic. This is result of five years of research, interviewing homosexuals (practicing and those not) and their friends and family. It is my hypothesis, as well as the author of this book, that it is a condition (I omit 'sinful' for the sake of my review being more congenial to general audiences) aided by conditional factors such as family life, peer pressure, sexual advertisements, social engineering programs in the school systems, friendships, and personal preferences. These factors alone are enough to force or allow a person to believe that homosexuality is their primary or only means of sexual pleasure (I do not believe in the idea of a 'homosexual lifestyle' - it is sex). The author of Preventing Homosexuality is very keen to point out the social problems that lead young people down a path that given different circumstances, they might not have otherwise taken. Not all his premises and conclusions are correct. Nonetheless, he has researched the subject just as thoroughly as other scientists and psychologists who have come up with very polar opposite theories. I think that most people should be big enough to allow Dr. Nicolosi (and myself) did his research correctly, only finding a different conclusion than what seems to be the majority. Copernicus also faced ridicule for a correct theory. It is wiser, methinks, to forego an ultimate conclusion and await further research and development in the field. If not, than the official institutions on psychiatry and psychology should, at the very least, allow Dr. Nicolosi and others the right to practice methods for 'curing' homosexual - especially since these methods have worked in numerous cases.
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Summary: Uncommon Common Sense Emerges
Review: I marvel at the nay-sayers who use the APA's condemnation of NARTH and Dr. Nicolosi as evidence that this book is without merit. Instead of addressing the issues in the book, they stoop to attacking the credibility of the author...a sure sign of desperation and ignorance. Keep in mind that the APA is the organization that is seeking to normalize pedophilia, transvestism, fetishism, and sadomasochism by removing them from their list of mental illnesses. Who's got credibility problems now? This is an amazingly sensible book that concisely explains how the sexual pathology of homosexuality emerges. Critics cite the lack of empirical evidence as the book's main weakness, however when both sides of a debate share an equal paucity of hard, empirical evidence (as they do in this case), it is the most sensible explanation that carries the day. The proponents of homosexuality scoff at their opponents lack of hard evidence while completely ignoring the fact that they too are equally deficient. It's time for logic, not emotion in this debate. This book delivers.
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