http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=116&itemid=29650756

"A mercury-filled tube was placed around the base of the penis and the students were shown alternating slides of men and women in various stages of undress. When participants responded to images of men with an erection, the closed electric circuit was broken and they received three-second electrical shocks at 10-second intervals. Each session lasted an hour. Participants set their own pain levels. Cameron said his shame was so deep that he selected the highest level."



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No kidding. There's probably a couple of guys out there who get wood every time there's a thunderstorm.

In the article an administrator at BYU confirms that behavioral therapies like aversion/electroshock were done at BYU in the 1970s.

The excuse that everyone was doing it disgusts me.

Usually, mormons deny that their Ph.D. candidates and professors were involved. Oh, no, they never did anything like that. The article includes the name of the BYU guy who directed the penis-shocking treatment. Facts, people.

Even the milder forms of aversion therapy to which LDS Social Services refer gays are an abomination.

In the last paragraph, an LDS person reassures us that all of the aversion therapies they use now are approved. That's bullshit. Approved by whom? Approved by a bunch of quacks who have created their own pseudo-scientific "journals" in which to publish studies filled not with facts, but with anecdotes.

This is one of the most repulsive things I have read about the damned Mormon church. That they would condone and use torture to enforce conformity proves that they are an evil organization. I shouldn't be surprised. I have witnessed their indoctrination of very young and impressionable children. They have no boundaries.

So, was Spence Kimball acting as a man or as a prophet when as President of the Church he oversaw this failed program at the "Lord's" university?

The dissertation can be found online:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1u3K43P-3JoY2Q5NDY3ZjYtNWUyMi00YWJiLWFhM2EtYTE4MjViNWVjOGEz&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

The patent can be seen online:

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6050959/fulltext.html

Inventor in Salt Lake City

http://www.patentstorm.us/inventors-patents/Robert_D__Card/2267061/1.html

Robert D Card? Was he by any chance trying to cure his brother's (Orson Scott Card) gayness?

Nah, guess they're not related. Couldn't find anything.

first of all that they used porn for their own purposes--but that their victims had to go purchase their own porn.

You can't have it both ways--get up in GC and talk about the evils of porn--punish those and make them feel like the scum of the earth for looking at porn, but then use it to 'cure' gays.

Makes perfect sense to me?????????????

I use porn to treat a condition I suffer from, it's called "not getting any".

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mormon-gay-cures-reparative-therapies-shock-today/story?id=13240700

ABC News picked up the story.

The following are excerpts from a lecture delivered April 28, 1997 at the University of California, Santa Cruz

"Private Pain, Public Purges: A History of Homosexuality at Brigham Young University", By Connell O'Donovan

"In 1969, the administration of B.Y.U. became more careful in its use of controversial therapies for treating 'sexual deviancy' as they put it. The administration publicly claimed that use of such therapies had been curtailed but unofficially they continued unabated. The Academic Vice President of B.Y.U. advised college deans to alert those who were using aversive therapies to be 'particularly cautious in utilizing them' not because they might prove harmful, but out of fear for law suits.

"In 1975, the BYU Psychology Department administrators organized a Board of Review for Psychotherapeutic Techniques to recomme'd, 'policies governing the use of sensitive treatment techniques" on campus. Within a year, the review board had assembled a list of eight therapies being used at BYU, which 'could conflict' with church teachings. However, most of the therapies were not stopped.

"In 1976, Ford McBride completed his 102 page doctoral dissertation on the 'Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy' ...

"McBride and Thorne used 14 Gay male subjects in electric aversive conditioning and assertion training. The purpose of this study was to discover whether using pornographic photos of men and women was helpful in aversion therapy. In the Mormon theology, the end certainly justifies the means: heterosexuality must be attained AT ANY COST - even if it means using pornography, which the Mormon Church is usually vehemently opposed to.

"The 14 Gay men were compared after being 'treated' on an outpatient basis during 22 sessions of shock therapy. Each of the 22 sessions lasted 50 minutes. 10 of those minutes were spent in "assertive training" and the remaining 40 minutes in 'aversive conditioning'. The average duration of treatment for the men was three months. These men were required to sign a paper informing them that 'damage to tissure or organs may occur', that they would be looking at "sensitive materials" possibly contrary to their values [i.e. pornography], and that BYU would be released from any responsibility for any damages done to them."

We see it over and over. Some conservative politician or religious leader gets busted for homosexual activity. Usually such people have a history of being very aggressive about going against gays. It turns out in many cases these people are not only gay themselves but some of the most sordid type of gay people. Who in the hell solicits gay sex with strangers in a public restroom? That's about as low as you can go.

Anyways, these people are just gay. They have gay urges but hate themselves for it and turn that hate onto other gays. Whenever I see someone really out to get the gays, I just pretty much figure they are gay themselves.

The same type of people who have heterosexual sex with people they meet at bars or at the office, except in pretty much all societies, gay people have to hide who they really are as much as possible for fear they will lose family, employment and other benefits heterosexuals take for granted, like being able to show affection in public to your SO without getting rounded up by Mormon goons or bashed to death by youths.

Try having to hide that you are attracted to the opposite sex and see how hard it is to meet people to talk to, let alone to have sex with or a long term relationship.

Gay men meet in restrooms or parks because they are forced there by the heterosexual relationship police who want to enforce their type of attraction on everyone.