Homosexuality

Dr. Philip G. Ney, MD FRCP(C)

In my letter (NZ Med J 1985; 98:449) I provided evidence that anal intercourse with men or women is unhealthy. I suggested that people’s aversion to homosexuality is because the practice of anal intercourse attributed to them is felt by many people to be unnatural. Then I followed it with another letter in which I questioned the way psychiatry proceeds when making its diagnostic classification. Nowhere did I state my views on homosexuals or the homosexual reform bill. I can assure your readers I have attempted to treat all my patients according to their needs, and homosexuals are no exceptions.

I suggest that the scientific/medical basis for diagnosing abnormal behaviour is when it is unhealthy and/or hazardous to their health and that of other people. Psychiatry also takes the position that something is abnormal when it is an indication of delayed development. I believe there is scientific and theoretical support for the idea that anal intercourse is abnormal because it is unhealthy and an indication of delayed psychosocial development. I support the position taken by the New Zealand government¹ wherein they state, “anal intercourse is very risky for men and women and should be avoided.” One has to wonder at the effect of lobbying which has convinced many legislators that people have a right to engage in the unsanitary practice of anal intercourse when it is spreading a very lethal disease to unsuspecting adults, chronically ill patients and innocent children.

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