LGB ErasureBeware of a new type of conversion therapy: "Reintegrative therapy"

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[–]fuck_reddit 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The trademarked name and kafka trap of “if you aren’t willing to discuss your deepest sexual fantasies with a therapist, then that means you feel shame.” Give it away as conversion therapy.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

And the fact that they put scare quotes around every instance of the term.

Don't worry! This is not like that so-called "Conversion Therapy" that everyone's been on about. It's just a highly compassionate method to treat obvious sexual traumas that prevent people from reintegrating into polite heterosexual society.

On the off chance that a therapist(a former clergyman for example) using this method were to say- Find and Cure the Gay from someone, that would just be a neat little bonus, don't you think? 😉

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I absolutely believe this is conversion therapy despite the repeated denials to the contrary that appear throughout the paper. It's worth a full read-through, but two things stand out to me as especially telling:

1) The fact that this article only discusses gay males, even though the form of therapy is initially described as being a "clinical trauma treatment for males and females, regardless of their sexuality".
2) This quote at the end: "Many clients who are gay-identified, but wish to explore their attractions in a neutral way, and to resolve any traumas they may discover, do not see this potential shift in their sexuality as a negative side-effect. They often give consent for their sexuality to possibly shift on its own to whatever that result may be", which to me heavily implies that the patient sample consists of gay men who wish they were bi or heterosexual.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So many words for a bunch of god-bothering cunts pushing conversion therapy on LGB people. Their denial is laughable.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not so attached to my sexual orientation that I'd be afraid of it changing if I were confronted with powerful truths and that happened by itself.

External meddling & proclamations about what one's "correct" orientation should be is certainly to be condemned, but individuals seeking inner peace & truth should never be prevented from that.

[–]dilsencySame-sex community 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd say your understanding of your sexual orientation is able to change, not your sexual orientation itself. That's just me though.