The 'illegitimate', who became the adopted offspring in conversion therapy for the Catholic Church. Castration gave way during the postwar period to individual and group psychotherapy. However, mixed results renewed support for sterilization and castration as well as for electroshock, insulin shock, lobotomy, and aversion therapy. Insulin shock therapy was the preconditioning of conversion therapy. For the boys created sopranos for the Melbourne Catholic Church in conversion therapy
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Insulin shock therapy as an experiment by the Victorian Government
Monday, 14 September 2015
Viennese endocrinologist who transplanted testicles from straight men into gay men in attempts to change their sexual orientation
Sigmund Freud
Freud‘s main discussion of female homosexuality was the 1920 paper “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman“, which described his analysis of a young woman who had entered therapy because her parents were concerned that she was a lesbian. Her father wanted this condition changed. In Freud‘s view, the prognosis was unfavourable because of the circumstances under which she entered therapy, and because homosexuality was not an illness or neurotic conflict. Freud wrote that changing homosexuality was difficult and possible only under unusually favourable conditions, observing that “in general to undertake to convert a fully developed homosexual into a heterosexual does not offer much more prospect of success than the reverse.”[30] Success meant making heterosexual feeling possible, not eliminating homosexual feelings.[31]
Gay people could seldom be convinced that heterosexual sex would provide them with the same pleasure they derived from homosexual sex. Patients often wanted to become heterosexual for reasons Freud considered superficial, including fear of social disapproval, an insufficient motive for change. Some might have no real desire to become heterosexual, seeking treatment only to convince themselves that they had done everything possible to change, leaving them free to return to homosexuality after the failure they expected.[32][33][34]
In 1935, a mother asked Freud to treat her son. Freud replied in a letter that later became famous:[35]
"I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. [...] it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. [...] By asking me if I can help [your son], you mean, I suppose, if I can abolish homosexuality and make normal heterosexuality take its place. The answer is, in a general way we cannot promise to achieve it. In a certain number of cases we succeed in developing the blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies, which are present in every homosexual; in the majority of cases it is no more possible. It is a question of the quality and the age of the individual. The result of treatment cannot be predicted."[36]
Adoption leads to homosexual desires?
What causes homosexuality Page 72-74 "Factors that may lead to homosexual desires...divorce, death of a parent, adoption, religion or race"
Rachel Maddow Tears the "Cure the Gays"
After calling him out for the past week, Richard Cohen tries to take on Rachel Maddow in defense of his "cure the gays" industry, but Rachel turns the tables and uses Cohen's own words against him virtually tearing him a new asshole. This is a condensed version of the full 18 minute interview to comport with YouTube's time limits, but it reflects the best of the complete interview.The 'insulin shock therapy' inflicted on 10 year old boys April 12th, 1972
Child Abuse Royal Commission hears of electric shock therapy
A WARD of the state who was raped by older boys at a youth centre was subjected to a dozen electric shock treatments to cure him of his homosexuality, an inquiry has heard.
Sunday, 13 September 2015
Changes in the pituitary-testicular system with age.
Abstract
Friday, 9 January 2015
Against Their Will
They were wives and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. The sterilization program ended in 1974, but its legacy will not go away. Many of its victims are still alive and they bear witness to a bureaucracy that trampled on the rights of the poor and the powerless.
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/lifting-the-curtain-on-a-shameful-era/article_fa19404e-8fdf-11e2-8fba-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm



