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The Aversion Project was a medical torture programme in South Africa led by Aubrey Levin [1] during apartheid. ... they began declining in frequency during the 1970s, ...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Levin subjected many homosexual men and women to electroshock or chemical castration, and over 900 conscripts were forced to undergo involuntary sexual reassignment surgery. In 1995 Levin moved to Canada and acquired a license to practice medicine. He became professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of ...
In a project headed by Aubrey Levin during the 1970s to 1980s, the South African Defence Force forced lesbian and gay military personnel to undergo "sex-change" operations. This was part of a secret program to purge homosexuality in the army.
July – The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project launches a case in the Witwatersrand Local Division challenging the constitutionality of the provisions of the Marriage Act that limit marriage to opposite-sex couples. 30 November – A five-judge panel of the Supreme Court of Appeal hands down a judgment in the Fourie case. The majority of four ...
In the 1970s and the 1980s, LGBT activism was among the many human rights movements in the nation, with some groups only dealing with LGBT rights and others advocating for a broader human rights campaign. In 1994, male same-sex conduct was legalised, female same-sex conduct never having been illegal (as with other former British colonies).
4 1970s. 5 1980s. 6 1990s. ... 1959 – BYU begins their on-campus electroshock and vomit aversion therapy program for males ... 2003 – For his senior project, ...
2.6 1970s. 2.7 1980s. 2.8 1990s. ... 1980: Publication of the ... and later subdivided into Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) and Sexual Aversion Disorder ...
In an independent BYU newspaper article two men describe their experience with the BYU Aversion therapy program during the early 1970s. [ 99 ] : 162 After confessing to homosexual feelings they were referred to the BYU Counseling Center where the electroshock aversion therapy took place using pornographic pictures of males and females.