Welcome to the Ex-Gays Longitudinal Study Site exploring the research of Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse into sexual orientation change efforts. The first published report of our results after three years of assessment of our research participants was in a book, Ex-Gays?, which came out in 2007; release of the book was coordinated with the report of the findings at the 2007 meeting of the American Association for Christian Counseling in Nashville Tennessee.

The authors conducted a quasi-experimental longitudinal study spanning six to seven years examining attempted religiously mediated sexual orientation change from homosexual orientation to heterosexual orientation. An initial sample was formed of 72 men and 26 women who were involved in a variety of Christian ministries, with measures of sexual attraction, infatuation and fantasy, and composite measures of sexual orientation and psychological distress, administered...

Stanton L. Jones is Provost (Chief Academic Officer) of Wheaton College. He served a three-year term as a member of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association, the central governing body of the APA.

Mark A. Yarhouse is the Rosemarie Scotti Hughes Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University.

A number of criticisms have been leveled against the study. This page presents responses to a number of these criticisms. We’ll add more responses over time as we continue to engage in this important area of research. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Wheaton College. Please note, we cannot answer every single specific criticism sent to us. It is very likely that your specific comment is already covered in the material below and we...

In our book, Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation, one of the subjects in the concluding chapter is the idea of expanded informed consent. Too frequently in this controversial area individuals are presented only with one side of the issues. We present below for the information of the reader resources on a number of sides of this issue. We do so for the sake of expanding the information in the hands of each individual...

Here is a collection of links to various media accounts of the study. These are a diverse array of reports from religious media, gay advocacy media, mainstream media, and others. They are posted without commentary or response. Sep 28 2011 Virtue Online Can Gays Go Straight? (http://www NULL.virtueonline NULL.org/portal/modules/news/article NULL.php?storyid=14949) Sep 28 2011 Box Turtle Bulletin ExGay Project Fails (http://www NULL.boxturtlebulletin...