Lobotomy

I was doing some research for the project and something that I found struck me as unusually interesting and disturbing.  In “Homosexuality and Science: A Guide to the Debates” by Vernon A. Rosario, I read about radical “cures” for homosexuality.  One of these drastic cures was lobotomy.  I normally would not had found the information as enticing because I would not be as informed on the subject, but my roommate is currently doing a research paper on the risks and uncertainties of lobotomy, so I know some more background on the barbaric procedure.  For those of you who aren’t as informed (as I was just a month ago), a lobotomy consists of cutting or scraping away most of the nerve connections in the prefrontal cortex and the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain.   It is a gruesome procedure that commonly results in many mental impairments and sometimes death.  To think that anything could be cured with a lobotomy is slightly disturbing and to think that homosexuality needs a cure is equally, if not more, disturbing.  Thank goodness time has progressed past lobotomy and is progressing past “curing” homosexuality.  

Margeaux