China orders payout in 'gay shock therapy' case

[inanna]

Source: BBC

China has ordered a psychiatric clinic to pay compensation to a gay man who was given electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual.

The man, Yang Teng, said a Beijing court had decreed that the Xinyu Piaoxiang clinic would have to pay him 3,500 yuan ($560; £400).

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Mr Yang said the procedure involved him being told to have sexual thoughts about men at the same time as receiving electric shocks.

He said that there were also attempts at hypnosis and that the procedures harmed him both mentally and physically.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30552144

[inanna]

2. I'd classify it as torture. n/t

[LiberalArkie]

3. I think it is pretty common at gay "readjustment" clinics.

[jakeXT]

4. Not anymore

Aversion therapy was previously considered as a treatment for homosexuality, but since 1994, the American Psychological Association (APA) has declared that it is a dangerous practice that does not work. Since 2006, the use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality has been in violation of the codes of conduct and professional guidelines of the APA and American Psychiatric Association. The use of aversion therapy to treat homosexuality is illegal in some countries. The standard in psychotherapy in America and Europe is currently gay affirmative psychotherapy.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversion_therapy#In_homosexuality

[cosmicone]

5. I like this idea

Let's get a bunch of teabaggers and repukes together and zap them every time they think of a tax cut.

The only dilemma would be should we connect them in series or parallel.

[sdfernando]

6. Has to be in parallel or the circuit would be broken if one removed the electrodes. :P

[Aerows]

7. Array format

Zap them all at once.