Although if I remember correctly, 'distonic' homosexuality is - really roughly, if you're deeply unhappy with your sexual identity as homosexual, then your attractions may still count as a disorder.
From memory (and I'm not nearly as familiar with DSM as with ICD classifications), ego-dystonic homosexuality was a feature of DSM-III-R but was dropped from the subsequent DSM-IV. There's a sort of rag-bag category called something along the lines of Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified into which distress-at-one's-sexuality might be crowbarred, at a push. Even there, it's the distress that's considered worthy of treatment rather than the orientation itself - but I daresay it could be interpreted in a malign way by those with a particular agenda. I've never ever seen anyone present with anything like ego-dystonic homosexuality, in all the years I've been a psychiatrist, but I'm aware that the situation might well be different in the US. |
