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| "nausea-inducing drugs...administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli," |
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| basically they'd give you some sort of drug that made you feel nauseous at the same time as they would show you homosexual erotic images, so that you'd feel sick at the same time as you saw them and they hoped every time the 'patient' would think of this homosexual material they'd feel the same feeling of nausea and it'd stop them from enjoying it and they'd become straight. |
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| masturbatory reconditioning/arousal reconditioning |
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attempt to eliminate certain sexual feelings by pairing them with boredom, pain, or unpleasantness. In effect, they assume that sexuality can be changed through punishment
Effectiveness of treatment with males is often measured by connecting a plethysmograph to their genitals while exposing them to sexually suggestive or pornographic photographs of children, teenagers, or adults, or audio-taped descriptions of sex acts involving them. |
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| The penile plethysmograph (PPG) is a device that was used in the early 1900s to diagnose homosexuality. It is still used today to measure sexual deviance among males. It is connected to a male's penis to directly measure his sexual arousal while he is exposed to sexually arousing photographs or audiotapes involving adults, adolescents, and children. |
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A talking therapy introduced by Dr. Sigmund Freud which involves the analysis of dreams, childhood experiences, etc.. to overcome present problems.... |
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| spiritual interventions, such as "prayer and group support and pressure." |
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| so they'd try to have an "intervention" to "solve" their "problem" which was, in their eyes, being gay, which isn't really a problem at all but to them it needed to be "cured". They even tried praying for their sexual orientation to change and pressuring them into forgetting about their homosexual feelings. |
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