Tapsearch Com EditorGay biology and aversion therapy
June 21st 2007 02:52
New York magazine has a terrific piece (hat tip Steve Sailer) about the biological markers of homosexuality.
One thing that caught my eye, though, was this (the writer is gay):
That, technically, is not aversion therapy. Aversion therapy is, as depicted in "A Clockwork Orange," the practice of showing someone a stimuli (e.g. violence or homosexual activity) while hurting them. As Pavlov's dog connected a bell ringing to food, the idea was that the subject would connect the activity to unpleasantness. They'd stop being violent or homosexual.
One thing that caught my eye, though, was this (the writer is gay):
Back then, many psychiatrists treated homosexuality with shock therapy, detention, or a mind-twisting intervention called “aversion therapy”—a practice that was still in vogue in the late seventies, when a lumpy-faced psychiatrist put me through a regimen of staring at Playboy centerfolds.
That, technically, is not aversion therapy. Aversion therapy is, as depicted in "A Clockwork Orange," the practice of showing someone a stimuli (e.g. violence or homosexual activity) while hurting them. As Pavlov's dog connected a bell ringing to food, the idea was that the subject would connect the activity to unpleasantness. They'd stop being violent or homosexual.
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