Homosexuality
If you are not familiar with homosexuality, you came to the right place. This is an opinionated page with stories, history, and modern day events. To talk more about homosexuality, you are going to want to know what it is. Homosexuality is when you are attracted to the same sex, male and male, female and female. Opposed to heterosexuals where you are attracted to the opposite sex.
Conversion Therapy's
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Before the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, aversion therapy was used in hopes that it would prevent or get rid of homosexuality. Devices like the one to the left were used by therapists to "convert" homosexual patients. You could also have these devices at your own home.
In the brutal therapy sessions, the shock was delivered directly to the male patient's genitals every time the patient showed any response to homosexuality. In the 1940s, homosexual people were also involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities by their families. Hospitals promised that the patient would leave cured of their "sexual illness." Not only were they not allowed to leave, but they were also sentenced to cruel treatments, including castrations, torture drugs, shock therapy, and lobotomies.
Gay conversion therapy, supposedly helps homosexuals overcome same-sex attractions. But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful. Other methods included psychoanalysis (talk therapy), estrogen treatments to reduce libido (sexual desire) in men, and even electroconvulsive therapy, where an electric shock is used to induce a seizure, which usually ends in memory loss memory loss.
In the brutal therapy sessions, the shock was delivered directly to the male patient's genitals every time the patient showed any response to homosexuality. In the 1940s, homosexual people were also involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities by their families. Hospitals promised that the patient would leave cured of their "sexual illness." Not only were they not allowed to leave, but they were also sentenced to cruel treatments, including castrations, torture drugs, shock therapy, and lobotomies.
Gay conversion therapy, supposedly helps homosexuals overcome same-sex attractions. But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful. Other methods included psychoanalysis (talk therapy), estrogen treatments to reduce libido (sexual desire) in men, and even electroconvulsive therapy, where an electric shock is used to induce a seizure, which usually ends in memory loss memory loss.
Gay Bullying Statistics
According to recent gay bullying statistics, homosexual teens are 2-3 times more likely to commit suicide than other teens. About 30% of all suicides have been related to sexual identity crisis. Students who also fall into the gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgender identity groups report being 5 times as more likely to miss school because they feel unsafe after being bullied due to their sexual orientation. About 28 percent out of those groups feel forced to drop out of school altogether.LGBT Youth in America
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