CURES FOR HOMOSEXUALISM?

The Confucian desire to be a dutiful son or daughter can lead to horrible therapies. Do we have such therapies here in other countries  of the world? Or we set up laws to ban and frustrate these individuals without even seeking for ways to convert them or help?

IN 2011 Lin Yan attended the Chuanwei Psychological Counselling Centre in Shenzhen, a southern city. Worried that his parents would not accept his homosexuality, Mr Lin, who was then 24 (and now uses a pseudonym), spent $1,700 on three months of so-called “conversion therapy”. He was shown sexualised images of men and induced to vomit by an injected drug. Other techniques included what he describes as “mental torture”. A counsellor would repeat that his family would never forgive him and that being gay was immoral. He endured electric shocks.



Mr Lin’s treatment may be abhorrent but it is far from uncommon in China’s big cities. The country declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 2001. Today urban centres harbour vibrant gay scenes and even hold cautious gay-pride festivals. There are over 100 support groups around the country. But the idea that homosexuality is a curable disease prevails in rural areas and among older generationsThey also lack proper professional standards. A counsellor at the Nanjing Urban Psychological Counselling Centre says he uses hypnosis to uncover the “root cause of the homosexual tendency” in childhood memories. A statement on the clinic’s website says that boys born into families with a strong female presence are more likely to be gay. Alternative medicine or electrotherapy is administered to create an aversion. The counsellor claims a 70% success rate.

Mr Lin counts himself a fortunate failure. He spent all his savings on his treatment and suffered anxiety, insomnia, weight and hair loss. But he remained gay. Seeing no alternative, he came out to his parents. It has taken his mother months to come to terms with his sexuality. Eventually she joked that if her son was to bring a boyfriend home, he should at least be rich and handsome.

 So its obvious there is no cure. We need to deal with it for it has come to stay, banning it is the worst laws any government has ever made. Even God himself could not stop HOMOSEXUALISM as thousands, did I say that, I mean a whole country or nation or world was utterly destroyed by fire even unborn babies who knew nothing about it were killed. No survivals. The question is...

was the destruction necessary? who survived the flames to pass on HOMOSEXUALISM to the rest of the world. Are these laws, bans, taboos really necessary?