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NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) was a U.S.-based organization founded in 1992 to promote "reparative therapy" — a discredited practice claiming to change sexual orientation from gay to straight. NARTH Rejected the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and WHO decisions to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, calling it a "developmental disorder." NARTH argued that using neutral terms (e.g., "consensual") would "normalize pedophilia," comparing it to how homosexuality was decriminalized. They worked with anti-LGBT figures like Paul Cameron (expelled from APA for data manipulation) and Scott Lively (author of The Pink Swastika, linking gays to the Holocaust). In 2005, NARTH member Gerald Schoenewolf wrote that Africans "benefited from slavery," sparking outrage before the text was deleted. Rind’s research challenged NARTH’s core belief that all minor-adult sexual contact is inherently traumatic. NARTH claimed such studies "legitimized pedophilia" and lobbied to suppress them. Its methods were condemned by the APA, WHO and mainstream medicine as harmful and unethical. |