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The Aversion Project was a medical torture programme in South Africa led by Aubrey Levin [1] during apartheid. The project identified gay soldiers and conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF). Victims were forced to submit to "curing" their homosexuality [1] because the SADF considered homosexuality to be subversive ...
Aversion therapy is a form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort. This conditioning is intended to cause the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations with the intention of quelling the targeted (sometimes compulsive) behavior.
The history of conversion therapy can be divided broadly into three periods: an early Freudian period; a period of mainstream approval of conversion therapy, when the mental health establishment became the "primary superintendent" of sexuality; and a post- Stonewall period where the mainstream medical profession disavowed conversion therapy.
On Sept. 18, Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order ending conversion (torture) therapy in Kentucky. Surrounded by advocates, legislators, and most importantly, some of the brave survivors of ...
Some methods that have been reported include "corrective" rape or sexual assault, imprisonment and kidnapping, physical abuse, electroconvulsive shock therapy, hormone treatments, and "aversion ...
Logan does caution that the scene in They/Them represents "an extreme horror version" of aversion therapy, the mode of conversion therapy in the film. At the same time, though, some of the stories ...
Specifically, conversion therapy—efforts to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression—is a practice that is not supported by credible evidence and has been disavowed by behavioral health experts and associations. Conversion therapy perpetuates outdated views of gender roles and identities as well as ...
Contents. Conversion therapy. One's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, or gender expression can be changed to fit heterosexual, heteroromantic, and cisgender norms. Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to ...