Conversion Therapy
You can't turn off or change genetically determined traits on a whim. People who believe otherwise are fools, idiots, or just plain stupid. You decide...
“Conversion Therapy” is the idea that people who are homosexual can be “converted” from being gay to recognizing that they are and should be heterosexual. Correcting this “flaw” in gay people, we are told, can be accomplished by showing them the errors in their thought processes and physical impulses until they realize that being “straight” is the proper way for them to think about and practice their sexuality.
While it certainly possible to convince certain people the “truth” about nearly anything, the approach described above is, shall we say, lacking in a certain correspondence with that silly ol’ thing known as “reality.”
When I started college over five decades ago, I had virtually no experience with people of the “gay persuasion.” Homosexuals in my Midwestern town of 10,000+ hardly flaunted their “deviant,” non-normal lifestyle. I imagine more than a few closets were occupied that half-century ago.
As largely ignorant kids, we would insult each other by using the word “queer.” To us—a perfectly legitimate and proper perspective—“queer” just meant odd or strangely different. Using that word to label that concept should still be acceptable, just as “gay” can mean “happy or carefree.” Unfortunately, the nut jobs of the world have made such approaches a painful and overall fruitless endeavor.
Our mom would tell us we shouldn’t hurl the word “queer” at a brother or sister. But she never explained why, and it was some years later until I realized the source of her reticence or why she thought such insults should be verboten.
My first year in college, some gay guys had a float in the homecoming parade. Indeed, that may have been my first overt encounter in the wild with honest-to-god homosexuals. I dunno. No one thought much about this, um, penetration of gays into an otherwise straight event. Unusual, yes, but no one I knew was horrified or appalled.
Ehn.
Later on in my college career, I took a class on “Abnormal Psychology.” Back in those antediluvian days, being a homosexual was still considered abnormal. Which it was and still is, of course. Being gay “deviates from what is normal or usual.” Sometimes there is the qualifier of being “undesirable or worrying.” But the latter is not an essential aspect of the concept.
Despite the concerted efforts of Hollyweird, the educational establishment, political “leaders,” the medical hegemony, and a host of other poor thinkers, being a homosexual is not normal, no matter how much advocates try to shove this nonsensical idea into our faces in entertainment venues from TV shows to movies to video games. Despite the current social contagion and “modern sensibilities” distorting and weakening the minds of waaay too many young folks, homosexuals make up only about 5% of the population, with gay men comprising well over half of that total. And the cause célèbre du jour focusing on mentally ill trans people is fixated on maybe one-tenth-of-one-percent of people; essentially zero and barely a statistical rounding error.
In any event, the course I took covering abnormal psychological states had a guest lecturer—a gay guy—who proceeded one entire class to describe for us in considerable and rather explicit detail (delivered in an overall matter-of-fact tone, though with a few bits of humor scattered throughout the talk) what it meant to be a homosexual and how the physical act of anal sex could be something “desirable”…for a gay male, at least.
He also described the difficulties gays had in attempting to convince the wider society that being a homosexual was definitely not a “choice” that a person made. A sexual attraction to a member of the same sex was genetically set, just as it was for heterosexual attraction between men and women.
And again, no one that I knew was “shocked” or “distressed” or whatever at learning more about homosexuality and how it operated.
To echo Jerry Seinfeld, I and other men I knew definitely had no desire to “experiment” on a personal level or to watch gay porn or to be hit upon by a gay guy, but we would have said, “not that there is anything wrong with that.”
I don’t give a rat’s what adults do voluntarily and peacefully with one other, sexually or otherwise. Being a homosexual is just another fact of reality, with probable evolutionary explanation rooted in the nature of hunter-gatherer societies.
Just don’t try to cram it down my throat…
**rim shot**
Sadly, that hard-fought social acknowledgement about the genetic origins of homosexuality is blithely and frequently and proudly ignored in the corroded halls of entertainment “creators.”
For example, in more television series than I care to count, a character is established as firmly and dedicatedly heterosexual. Then—at the drop of a strange hat—that self-same character abruptly and without warning or setup is presented as equally committed to being gay. This contrived idiocy, of course, is nothing more than an arbitrary plot ploy by the people running the show to generate artificial controversy and/or to “normalize” what can never be normalized.
And, as an aside, I don’t ever recall the reverse happening: where a gay character in a movie or TV show renounces his (or her) gayness and is from then on fully and unreservedly straight.
That’s because people in the entertainment industry these days are primarily stupid and profoundly hypocritical.
Real life people do not and cannot simply repudiate being normal and embrace being a homosexual…because fundamental sexual attraction is genetically determined.
Usually, the contradiction between reality and these sexually mercurial fictional folks is plastered and glossed over by appealing to that convenient catchall phrase: “they’re bisexual.”
What a joke.
Not to mention the fact that using borderline cases to override and overshadow the existents that comprise a concept is epistemological impermissible…but that is the modus operandi of most “activists” and pundits in today’s warped world.
Sure. Anyone can choose to have sex with a member of the same sex and then choose to switch teams at the next opportunity. That willy nilly flip-flopping is a consequence of the fact that people have free-will. Consider: how many gay guys chose to marry a “beard” in eras when homosexuality was illegal and could land them in jail? Many—most?—of those homosexuals fathered children with their wives.
But having sex with women did not make them or mean they were straight.
It is incredibly asinine and infuriating that I even have to make these points. But…there you have it.
I mean, it’s sickly, sadly hilarious to watch PC SJW wokesters froth at the mouth at the mere mention of “conversion therapy” even while they essentially put that discredited program into practice in their inane propaganda tales.
And then in the next breath they will shriek in outraged stridency that “gender” or sexuality is “fluid” with 50 billion combos and pronouns and self-descriptors that make zero sense, and you can just decide—ta da!—to be sexually whatever you want whenever and wherever you choose.
Square that circle, Batman.
The people who spout and implement this utter bilge are the ones who desperately need and would benefit from a true “conversion therapy,” a therapy that corrected their irrational, immoral, unsound, collectivist and statist mentalities into something at least approaching a correspondence to a reality-based, rational individualism with a respect for logic, reason, and critical thinking.
But expecting or even hoping for consistency from people who reject the very tools and behavior required for a fully human existence will, in most instances, result in a deep and bitter disappointment.
Welcome to the jungle.
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