The Pros And Cons Of Sexual Orientation Therapy

Sexual Orientation Conversion therapy began in the time of Sigmund Freud, and how it was practiced in the time of Sigmund Freud is significantly different from how it is practiced in modern day society, Sexual Orientation Conversion therapy was used in order to further the field of psychosexuality that was still in its infant stage. Freud wrote to a woman in Nineteen- Thirty five who had asked for her son to be cured of his homosexuality, that “Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but 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. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and
To people like Samuel Brinton, due to being raised in what could be called a Southern Baptist religious compound, that resemble the Polygamist compounds that have been in the news in the past few years; Sam had no idea that he was not supposed to be attracted to other boys (Bentley). Sam was led down a religious path that did not teach him that men should not be attracted to other men. So when a Playboy magazine found its way into the hand of the boys in the compound, and Sam told his father that he was not attracted to the women in the magazine, but the feelings he believed that he should have felt for the women in the magazine, he felt for his best friend Dale. His father, who we find out as we listen to Sam’s recollection of the events that occurred before his Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy “torture,” that his father repeatedly “beat the gay away” which resulted in multiple trips to the emergency room before the Sexual Orientation Conversion therapy or what Sam called his “Month of Hell” even began