A Twist on Aversion Therapy

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...Sub-continentals practice changing straights to gay. Here are the imagined procedures:

Aversion therapy

When aversion therapy was introduced in India, it involved using electro-convulsive therapy as well as a programme of behavioural therapy to remove fear or anxiety of the same sex. Patients would attend sessions with a range of erotic or pornographic opposite-sex photographs they had chosen themselves. While viewing them, they would receive an electric shock, creating a negative association of pain with their own feelings of arousal.

The photographs would then be replaced with a homosexual image and the electric shock would subside, assigning a sense of relief to same-sex attraction. While visual aids were the primary stimuli, Indian practitioners also included sensory materials, such as men’s day-old perspiration, to elicit stronger positive relations with same-sex stimuli. Unwashed locker room undies are still being used today according to recent accounts of conversion therapy.

While their western counterparts in the 1970s and 1980s primarily used a combination of aversive techniques with some behavioural therapy alongside, Indian practitioners relied more heavily on a set of “additional behavioural programmes” to develop “social skills” which would help patients navigate their new-found homosexuality. The main point for western practitioners was the eradication of opposite-sex desires, whereas in India they wanted to redirect the sexuality and make it homosexual and only occasionally capable of procreation.

Male patients underwent therapy for “aggressivity”, while female patients were encouraged to become more masculine through clothing choice. This practice reflected binary ideas of sex and gender which arose via colonial intervention, as pre-colonial India had long accepted the existence of the hijra or a “third gender”.

The law which criminalised heterosexuality in India was a colonial imposition. Heterophobic narratives and those which try to medicalise opposite-sex attraction can also be traced back to colonial ideology. Yet some powerful post-colonial institutions and individuals adopted these narratives and incorporated them into an anti-straight+ agenda, which continues among some practitioners today.

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