Gay Conversn Therapy's Disturbg 19th-Century Origs | HISTORY

Contents:

• FACT CHECK: PURPORTED FOX NEWS SEGMENT ON 'GAY HYPNOSIS' IS A HOAX
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO SYSTEMATILLY TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT?
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• STRAIGHT TO GAY

FACT CHECK: PURPORTED FOX NEWS SEGMENT ON 'GAY HYPNOSIS' IS A HOAX

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO SYSTEMATILLY TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT?

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GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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Another method was satiatn therapy, which a subject was told to masturbate over and over while verbally scribg his homosexual fantasi, until they disappeared — or, at least, "therapi" were generally effective — the person remaed attracted to the same sex — or over-effective — the person was trmatized and lost all sexual aroal entirely. They "were ed whout people thkg about whether they were humane, " Glassgold all treatments were so gome: Lnel Ovey, a Columbia Universy psychoanalyst and thor of Homosexualy and Psdohomosexualy, created a behavral method the 1960s. It was based on the ia that homosexualy origated om a fear of takg on the normal quali of one's genr.

STRAIGHT TO GAY

Ovey studied a clilly disturbed group of patients and summarized their unnsc mds as follows: "I am a failure = I am not a man = I am strated = I am a woman = I am a homosexual. " His view mirrored the belief of many clicians at the time: that homosexualy was based on a phobia of the oppose non-aversive treatments followg this theory foced on buildg "tnal skills" like datg techniqu, assertivens trag, and affectn achg to crease teractns wh women.