A new book titled, “Masters of Sex” by author Thomas Maier, calls into question whether William Masters & Virginia Johnson faked the conversion of gays and lesbians into heterosexuals back in the late 60s and 70s. The Masters & Johnson study, documented in their 1979 book “Homosexuality in Perspective,” has been used by countless ex-gay groups as scientific support to their claims they are able to turn gays into ex-gays.

Maier, who summarized his findings in Scientific American, explained:

Most staffers never met any of the conversion cases during the study period of 1968 through 1977…Marshall and Peggy Shearer, perhaps the clinic’s most experienced therapy team in the early 1970s, says they never treated homosexuals and heard virtually nothing about conversion therapy.

Maier further revealed: Read the rest of this entry »