Homosexuality

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belief that peoples sexual orientation could be altered. These treatments that were implemented were known as aversion therapies. In the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to aversion therapy as being a "type of behavior therapy designed to modify undesirable or antisocial habits or addictions by creating a strong association with a disagreeable or painful stimulus" (FreeDictionary,2016). As this sexuality began to increase families started to admit their gay sons and daughters into psychiatric units in the promise that their children would be eventually cured of their sickness. It is within these units that the controversial aversion therapies would take place.

One type of treatment that was commonly used within psychiatric units was the use of visual stimulus. The patient would be strapped to a seat and electrodes would be placed on their hands, waist and genitals. They were then shown different images of men and women and when aroused they were administered an electric ...

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