I once was gay but now I can see! (715 hits)
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Submitted by Adam Poirier (View user info) at 2004-08-04 14:07:52 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1183596,00.html (more dumbass pilgrim mentality)
People are sexual,bi and homo and hetero are just handy labels at the ends and middle of the spectrum.
That said, all this conversion therapy is just brainwashing...with an electric shocker and enough b.f. skinner style sadism I could make your pecker get hard every time you saw a rutabaga.
What do you guys think of this?
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-11-26 09:11:45 EST (#)
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No, you're still gay, Tweety Bird.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-04-22 20:54:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by FetishII (user info) at 2004-08-08 07:15:55 (#)
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Hi, my name is CanucksFan. I like to spam old posts.
Submitted by fluff (user info) at 2005-04-06 17:43:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by FetishII (user info) at 2004-08-08 07:15:55 EDT (#)
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Hi, my name is CanucksFan. I like to spam old posts.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2004-08-04 18:38:33 EDT (#)
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well, one of the problems with is, is parents force their children to go to it.
If you as a person want to undergo shock therapy, well and good, but forcing someone to is just fucked up.
My friend is a mormon. His parents had him taken away in the middle of the night when he was 15 so he could be "cured". He went through 4 months of forced shock therapy before he finally decided it was suicide or escape. He escaped and got to live the next few years till he was a legal adult in hiding, afraid that the clinic staff would find him and force him to go back (apparently it does happen)
So yeah, suffice to say, there are reasons for wanting it banned
Submitted by disAbled (user info) at 2004-08-04 17:21:08 EDT (#)
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It seems that "reorientation" therapy should be available. Considering the broad spectrum of psychiatric help available for many maladies, shouldn't there be room in it for this? I find it strange that activist groups fighting for "choice" want this practice banned. If people believe in it and are willing and even eager to try it, shouldn't they be allowed the option without the persecution. It's a shame how our society, in the pursuit of social freedoms, opens one choice up only by closing another.
Submitted by Chief_Rugger (user info) at 2004-08-04 17:17:56 EDT (#)
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Lordy, I thought this crap ended in the 60s! Why are we so stuck on being politically correct? Its fine to be different! if you really love someone, you wouldn't try to change them, you'd love them for who they are. .....and thats enough flowery crap from me.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2004-08-04 17:12:37 EDT (#)
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I thought it was interesting that homosexuality was dropped from the index of mental illnesses not due to research or anything like that, but because of pressure from advocacy groups. There seems to be a disconnect (in the article) between that point and the defense of it as an unchangable, incurable state on the part of the people who dropped it under political pressure. Maybe that's just me, or, does anyone else think that?
Submitted by CanucksFan (user info) at 2004-08-04 17:00:25 EDT (#)
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I know what you're saying caulain, but I think the problem with that is having relationships with other people in the future...could lead to some surprises.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2004-08-04 16:24:55 EDT (#)
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I think that there are some rather striking similarities between the way raving queens and really religious people. I don't know what it is, but seriously a lot of them give off a gaydar vibe.
As for conversion, bitch please all that is going to do is lead to a nasty divorce down the road and some really confused kids.
Submitted by screaney (user info) at 2004-08-04 15:14:34 EDT (#)
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i believe you are right about the b.f. skinner type sadism to invoke erections at the site of a 'rudabaga'. the movie a clockwork orange definately rang a bell when i read this. as for the spectrum of sexuality, i believe it is a spectrum but the distribution of our sexuality seems to be localised around either one of the two extremes. that is, people usually choose one way or another, not so much this wishy-washy 1/3 gay, 2/3 straight mentality.
although, you do make a good point about changing one's preference. i'm sure, given the right environment (prison, armed forces), one can have a temporary or permanent change in sexual orientation. as for bisexuals, they hit dead centre in the spectrum. they love all of humanity. eek....
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-08-04 15:11:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-08-04 14:59:15 EDT (#)
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I think its just another option. Having option can't be bad
Submitted by unholy_liver_spots (user info) at 2004-08-04 14:26:46 EDT (#)
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