• The cruelty of Reker's Anti-Gay 'therapy'
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[quote]The Miami New Times, the outlet that broke the story about George Rekers and his Rentboy escort, has a new article looking at the kind of "therapy" Rekers has in the past used on kids who didn't conform to the gender expectations of their parents or society. And this is way more disturbing than the mere hypocrisy he is guilty of. Rekers has a PhD in developmental psychology and he has run various clinics and research projects to "treat" those who -- gasp! -- might be gay. To give you an idea of the kind of damage he has inflicted on children and families, read this description of his methods: In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay movement, was presented with a 4-year-old "effeminate boy" named Kraig, whose parents had enrolled him in the program. Rekers put Kraig in a "play-observation room" with his mother, who was equipped with a listening device. When the boy played with girly toys, the doctors instructed her to avert her eyes from the child. According to a 2001 account in Brain, Child Magazine, "On one such occasion, his distress was such that he began to scream, but his mother just looked away. His anxiety increased, and he did whatever he could to get her to respond to him... Kraig became so hysterical, and his mother so uncomfortable, that one of the clinicians had to enter and take Kraig, screaming, from the room." Rekers's research team continued the experiment in the family's home. Kraig received red chips for feminine behavior and blue chips for masculine behavior. The blue chips could be cashed in for candy or television time. The red chips earned him a "swat" or spanking from his father. Researchers periodically entered the family's home to ensure proper implementation of the reward-punishment system. After two years, the boy supposedly manned up. Over the decades, Rekers, who ran countless similar experiments, held Kraig up as "the poster boy for behavioral treatment of boyhood effeminacy." At age 18, shamed by his childhood diagnosis and treatment, Rekers's poster boy attempted suicide, according to Gender Shock, a book by journalist Phyllis Burke. Rekers, whose early experiments were the first to ostensibly demonstrate a "gay cure," resigned from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) last week, after it was revealed the gay escort had given him nude sexual massages. NARTH, however, stands by his science. That makes me so angry that my hands are shaking as I type this. The word "barbaric" keeps coming into my mind but it seems not nearly strong enough to convey how appalling this all is.[/quote] Dear 'Dr.' George Rekers, :wtc: I mean, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?! you beat the shit out of A FUCKING 4 YEAR OLD, JUST BECAUSE, "BAAAAWWWWWW!!! HE BE PLAYING WIFF BARBIEZ!!!!!!!111" What little sympathy I had for you was gone from the start, but this.... THIS, makes me want you to die in the worst fucking way possible. Although the humiliation might be enough justice as is... So what, you're a pedophile, too? How fucking surprising! I bet you must have got a MASSIVE hard on beating up all those kids. Die in a fire, Staticman~ Source: [url]http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/05/rekers_and_the_barbarism_of_an.php[/url]
What the fuck man :mad:
I bet this merely a cover up for him to do whatever he is thinking about in his sick mind.
[QUOTE=staticman;22158496]Dear 'Dr.' George Rekers, :wtc: I mean, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?! you beat the shit out of A FUCKING 4 YEAR OLD, JUST BECAUSE, "BAAAAWWWWWW!!! HE BE PLAYING WIFF BARBIEZ!!!!!!!111" What little sympathy I had for you was gone from the start, but this.... THIS, makes me want you to die in the worst fucking way possible. Although the humiliation might be enough justice as is... So what, you're a pedophile, too? How fucking surprising! I bet you must have got a MASSIVE hard on beating up all those kids. Die in a fire, Staticman~ Source: [url]http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/05/rekers_and_the_barbarism_of_an.php[/url][/QUOTE] Your commentary is almost as horrific as the actual story. As soon as people break out the "BAAWWWW OMG IM TO STOOPED TO TYPE PEROPERLYYY ON KEYBROBOADDDD OVER 9000," to gain credibility, they lose some from my perspective. Just saying, Performual~
I don't know how you could get shaking mad at a story like this, irrationality is in my book very unprofessional. Also how would they "treat" someone (a four year old) for gayness? How would they know his sexual orientation? If anything the weird childhood is likely what influenced his sexuality.
He must have been reken' in the cash. Mingebox~
When I was 5 or 6 my I played with Barbies and my favourite colour was pink. I'm straight...
[QUOTE=Performual;22158582]Your commentary is almost as horrific as the actual story. As soon as people break out the "BAAWWWW OMG IM TO STOOPED TO TYPE PEROPERLYYY ON KEYBROBOADDDD OVER 9000," to gain credibility, they lose some from my perspective. Just saying, Performual~[/QUOTE] what does that have to do with anything?
This makes me rage.
[QUOTE=Faren;22158692]When I was 5 or 6 my I played with Barbies and my favourite colour was pink. I'm straight...[/QUOTE] Sounds like you need a whoopin'. :v:
[QUOTE=Faren;22158692]When I was 5 or 6 my I played with Barbies and my favourite colour was pink. I'm straight...[/QUOTE] And a few [img]http://www.primoxtra.com/uptest/s/10-1072red.jpg[/img]'s for you...
[QUOTE=thisispain;22158700]what does that have to do with anything?[/QUOTE] I didn't like the guy's response so I wrote about it. __ On the main topic: That's so shameful on those people's part for supporting such terrible practices on that kid. Childhood ruined. :(
[QUOTE=Performual;22160235]I didn't like the guy's response so I wrote about it. __ On the main topic: That's so shameful on those people's part for supporting such terrible practices on that kid. Childhood ruined. :([/QUOTE] You just compared an insult on the internet to beating a toddler.
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Playing with Girly toys at a young age doesn't mean a child is Gay. At a young age, kids haven't really figured out the difference between girls' stuff and boys' stuff. That's why they quite happily play together, but when they get slightly older, they discover the difference, and that's when they enter the "EWW GIRLS HAVE COOTIES" phase of repulsion. Then as they get older still, they become attracted to each other. That is the natural progression. These researches seemed to have wanted to entirely skip the first two stages and accelerate the child straight to the third. This is like taking a young child and asking it to go beat up another kid, it's just not ready at that stage, despite doing it later.
So who else thinks of Clockwork Orange?
[QUOTE=Johnnsen;22161627]So who else thinks of Clockwork Orange?[/QUOTE] Here, sir.
[QUOTE=Performual;22158582]Your commentary is almost as horrific as the actual story. As soon as people break out the "BAAWWWW OMG IM TO STOOPED TO TYPE PEROPERLYYY ON KEYBROBOADDDD OVER 9000," to gain credibility, they lose some from my perspective. Just saying, [B]Performual~[/B][/QUOTE] As soon as people break out the jizz sign they lose credibility.
I played with Barbies with my female cousin, and I'm as straight as a line.
Read the title as anti gravity therapy.
I read it as Anti Gravy therapy, I expected a really cruel obstacle course or something.
Basically, unless homosexuality is natural, then there is no reason why you would have tendencies towards it before being sexually mature.... and if it was natural and you could, then aversion therapy to suppress a natural tendency would just cause someone to be messed up. Crazy stuff.
[QUOTE=gmaster;22161545]Playing with Girly toys at a young age doesn't mean a child is Gay. At a young age, kids haven't really figured out the difference between girls' stuff and boys' stuff. That's why they quite happily play together, but when they get slightly older, they discover the difference, and that's when they enter the "EWW GIRLS HAVE COOTIES" phase of repulsion. Then as they get older still, they become attracted to each other. That is the natural progression. These researches seemed to have wanted to entirely skip the first two stages and accelerate the child straight to the third. This is like taking a young child and asking it to go beat up another kid, it's just not ready at that stage, despite doing it later.[/QUOTE] Not only that, but his testosterone and estrogen hormones haven’t fully developed to the point to distinguish femininity and masculinity.
Fortunately or unfortunately whichever way you look at it basic psychology cannot be applied to something as broad as the sexuality of a person
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[QUOTE=Performual;22158582]Your commentary is almost as horrific as the actual story. As soon as people break out the "BAAWWWW OMG IM TO STOOPED TO TYPE PEROPERLYYY ON KEYBROBOADDDD OVER 9000," to gain credibility, they lose some from my perspective. Just saying, Performual~[/QUOTE] Good thing you signed your post so I could see who wrote it :downs: OT: That guy is pretty messed up.
[QUOTE=Faren;22158692]When I was 5 or 6 my I played with Barbies and my favourite colour was pink. I'm straight...[/QUOTE] Awhile back pink was the more masculine colour and blue was for girls until it eventually reversed. I'm not talking during our life time though, and for the love of god don't quote me on that.
You bleeding heart bastards don't know what cruelty is. This so-called 'therapy' is absolutely nothing compared to what they do to homosexual people in other countries. Like raping lesbian women in Uganda to 'correct' them. And the government there supports it.
Dr Rekers seriously needs a date. WITH THE GALLOWS. As does the Ugandan government.
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