Quite apart from all the horrific abusive stuff they were doing to these poor men, I am trying to fathom how they thought that asking young gay men in denial to *go and hang out in bathhouses* was going to "cure" their homosexuality.
I mean there's only one use for bathhouses that I know of. Unless it was a special In Denial Jewish Men's Group Only bathhouse, in which case I am picturing the closeted men running the programme creepily perving on their naked, anxious charges while trying to convince themselves that the whole thing was not in any way sexual.
But but but the trips to the bathhouses were "in order to be nude with father figures." And everyone knows that The Gay is caused by never being nude with a father figure, right... so being nude with them would automatically "cure" it, right? Right? /sarcasm
When I was in my early 20s, I very briefly flirted with the idea of looking into some of those ex-gay groups. Thankfully, it never went beyond a few internet searches but I really fucking hate that this stuff even exists.
When I was hospitalized, my mom asked the social worker if it was possible to make me straight. Thankfully, said social worker read her the riot act (and I was old enough that she couldn't legally force me into anything and my mom got over that idea pretty quickly anyways) but I wonder what would have happened if my parents had found out when I was younger. Sad thing is, I don't think they would have forced me into anything out of maliciousness but because they honestly would think that they were helping.
This is no more than getting people to pay you to abuse them, and from the description of some of the "therapy" get your sexual kinks serviced. I did a quick search but I could not find a figure for how many people committed suicide while undergoing this abuse. A few manslaughter charges, even if a conviction doesn't come, might get these horrible people out of the business too.
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I mean there's only one use for bathhouses that I know of. Unless it was a special In Denial Jewish Men's Group Only bathhouse, in which case I am picturing the closeted men running the programme creepily perving on their naked, anxious charges while trying to convince themselves that the whole thing was not in any way sexual.
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When I was hospitalized, my mom asked the social worker if it was possible to make me straight. Thankfully, said social worker read her the riot act (and I was old enough that she couldn't legally force me into anything and my mom got over that idea pretty quickly anyways) but I wonder what would have happened if my parents had found out when I was younger. Sad thing is, I don't think they would have forced me into anything out of maliciousness but because they honestly would think that they were helping.
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