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| style="padding:15px;" |''«In retrospect Mr. A decided that the combination of his anxiety when approaching and meeting people, the teasing rejection by heterosexual males [which he had reported in childhood] and the comfortable acceptance by homosexual males who pursued and courted him had helped convince him of his homosexuality. Passive homosexual behavior allowed him to avoid the severe anxiety experienced when initiating courtship.»''
| style="padding:15px;" |''«In retrospect Mr. A decided that the combination of his anxiety when approaching and meeting people, the teasing rejection by heterosexual males [which he had reported in childhood] and the comfortable acceptance by homosexual males who pursued and courted him had helped convince him of his homosexuality. Passive homosexual behavior allowed him to avoid the severe anxiety experienced when initiating courtship.»''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Journal of Clinical Psychiatry<ref name="Satinover1996"/> </div>
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Journal of Clinical Psychiatry<ref name="Satinover1996"/> </div>
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| style="padding:15px;" |''«Bizarrely, the members of this group that no one can define have not only been born this way, they can never change. "This way" is apparently set in genetic stone never, ever to change, though scientists and advocates alike still cannot define exactly what "this way" is.»''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Austin Ruse: Fake Science<ref name="Ruse2017">{{cite book |title=Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data |author=Austin Ruse |publisher=Regnery Publishing |place=Washington, DC |year=2017 |pages=42 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXYT0z_lII}}</ref> </div>
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Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so-called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men and Women Who Have Experienced Authentic Change in Sexual Orientation Through Therapy that Works! |publisher=PATH: Positives Alternatives to Homosexuality |url=http://www.voices-of-change.org |quote=The testimonials presented on this site are authentic Voices of Change by men and women who have experienced profound changes in their sexual orientation. These brave men and women represent thousands of people around the world who feel same-sex attraction (SSA) but don't believe these unwanted feelings represent who they truly are as people nor did they believe these feelings to be unchangeable. Because they understood their SSA was not inborn but rather the result of a number of underlying risk factors, they chose to work on and resolve these issues, such as: emotional and/or sexual abuse; unmet emotional needs; depression, OCD or other co-morbid disorders; and childhood wounds to their psychosexual and/or psychosocial development. |accessdate=26 Feb 2017}}</ref>
Perhaps the most prominent – and damaging - modern offshoot of the ideomotor effect is the phenomenon of the so-called [[LGBT|LGBTI/gender ideology]].{{#tag:ref|cf. The social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology. This is partly because researchers often choose to study issues implicating controversial questions of public policy. And it is partly because it is often impossible to perform the kind of objective observations and controlled experiments that are standard in the physical sciences. History is littered with notorious examples of false theories gaining wide acceptance among respected social and behavioral scientists, some of which supported pernicious public policies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The shaky science behind same-sex marriage |author=Harvey C. Mansfield and Leon R. Kass |publisher=Institute for Marriage and Public Policy |date=26 Mar 2013 |url=http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_shaky_science_behind_same-sex_marriage |accessdate=8 Feb 2016}}</ref>|group=note}} There is no special force or agent at play, and a conclusion can be made that far from being some bizarre supernatural event, acting out [[same-sex attraction]]s by intercourse with the person of the same sex is nothing more than ''‘a quasi-involuntary muscular action’'' that can be easily explained within the framework of the [[OCD]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men and Women Who Have Experienced Authentic Change in Sexual Orientation Through Therapy that Works! |publisher=PATH: Positives Alternatives to Homosexuality |url=http://www.voices-of-change.org |quote=The testimonials presented on this site are authentic Voices of Change by men and women who have experienced profound changes in their sexual orientation. These brave men and women represent thousands of people around the world who feel same-sex attraction (SSA) but don't believe these unwanted feelings represent who they truly are as people nor did they believe these feelings to be unchangeable. Because they understood their SSA was not inborn but rather the result of a number of underlying risk factors, they chose to work on and resolve these issues, such as: emotional and/or sexual abuse; unmet emotional needs; depression, OCD or other co-morbid disorders; and childhood wounds to their psychosexual and/or psychosocial development. |accessdate=26 Feb 2017}}</ref>