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| What is reparative therapy? What do you feel about the provision | |
| of such a therapy? | |
| By: Slavka Date: May 22, 2018, 7:38 am | |
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| The aim of reparative therapy is to change the person's sexual | |
| orientation. I have seen some documentaries on this, there even | |
| are boot camps where gay people go and 'undergo' such therapy. | |
| Personally, I feel quite strongly about this. | |
| Having witnessed personal struggles of some of my family members | |
| and friends who were gay, their own struggle accepting it as | |
| their families and society were telling them there was something | |
| wrong with them, some of them ended up suicidal as a result, I | |
| hold strong views on this. I feel such therapy wrong. | |
| I think that therapy should focus on working with their own | |
| acceptance, self esteem etc. | |
| Interestingly, the Pope made headlines as he said to one gay | |
| man, who struggled with his identity, that God doesn't make | |
| mistakes and created him as he should be. That's huge. The | |
| hardcore Christians didn't take lightly to this; I read some | |
| comments - quoting the Old Testament, calling the Pope a traitor | |
| etc. | |
| I think it's a positive development. The Church has been too | |
| oppressive for far too long. | |
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| Re: What is reparative therapy? What do you feel about the provi | |
| sion of such a therapy? | |
| By: VicTS Date: May 23, 2018, 5:49 am | |
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| Reparative therapy, also known as conversion therapy and cure | |
| therapy, is to make the client become heterosexual instead of | |
| homosexual or gay. I am being blunt there, it's main aim is to | |
| stop the client having same sex attraction and sex, or to | |
| suppress their gender identity. | |
| It is wrong an every level especially a human level. I feel | |
| there is never any exception, this type of therapy needs to be | |
| outlawed and become illegal. | |
| The Stonewall Organisation discuss it on their website, in their | |
| report called Unhealthy Attitudes (2015) they found 10% of | |
| health care workers witnessed colleagues expressing opinions | |
| that lesbian, gay and bi can be cured. They are calling for it | |
| to be condemned by the government and the practice becomes | |
| unavailable. | |
| This means that there are psychotherapists out there that will | |
| do this therapy. | |
| I feel that no one should ever feel the need or be bullied into | |
| feeling that their identity is wrong, including their sexual | |
| orientation. | |
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| Re: What is reparative therapy? What do you feel about the provi | |
| sion of such a therapy? | |
| By: Slavka Date: May 23, 2018, 6:38 am | |
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| I'm 100% with you on this Vic. | |
| #Post#: 59-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: What is reparative therapy? What do you feel about the provi | |
| sion of such a therapy? | |
| By: VicTS Date: May 23, 2018, 7:11 am | |
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