I don't know how so many parents are OK with exposing their kids to that stuff. Maybe they just don't know

I really view gays in the same light as pedophiles, especially because a lot of gays are pedophiles also.

I think A LOT of them don't realize how bad things have become.

But I'm sure you've seen some of those creepy YouTube clickbate videos aimed at children that get millions of views

But my difference between them, is I believe gays can be cured, pedophilia cannot

It's been accelerating more and more...

I’m so glad my mom kept all her old VHS tapes of nice wholesome kids content. I’m not letting my future kids use YouTube until they’re like 13 at least...

How exactly is it ‘cured?’ I haven’t seen anything to suggest it works like that.

@NITRODUBS Maybe gays can be cured, maybe they can't, but either way, they can be triaged into making a positive contribution to society. The only cure for pedophilia, though, is the rope.

I’ve seen cases of gays being cured, or at least subdued. The way to curing it is curing what ever triggered those thoughts and behaviors. Usually counseling for sexual trauma, parent abandonment, and therapy in general.

Well repression doesn’t sound like a cure. It just sounds like a form of ‘treatment’ if we’re framing it as a disease.

Repression isn’t always the outcome, but it’s definitely better than outwardly expressing that

The LGBT is constantly trying to ban conversion therapy camps and counselors, which is so odd for me because the majority of people who use these services are consenting adults.

If we’re being honest, that stuff is basically torture.

And it doesn’t work.

It really isn’t lol. If you really believe the “shock therapy” myth, I’m going to tell you now that there has only been one “therapist” that has used that and he has been shamed since. Gay therapy practices are very similar to AA meetings and other illness counseling

And if you’re against that, what do you suggest we do? Just allow them to continue life practicing gay behavior?

It’s unfair to not offer these people help when a lot of them want help. Taking away therapy because you deem it “torture”, when in reality, it’s similar to any other therapists practices, it unfair. We need to get rid of this boogey-man thought process that gay therapy is electro shock, abusive torture. That is liberal propaganda, and I suggest you look further into this.

So which is it? A fetish, a disease, or an addiction?

You’re using AA as an example.

A disease and a fetish. It’s not like these things can be exclusive.

Y'all still talking about boy-touchers and kid-didlers?

And... me using AA as an example isn’t calling it an addiction, I’m referencing the group practices of the AA, it’s an analogy, not meant to be literal.

I know that a society that doesn’t harbor gay practices and acceptance is probably the best “treatment”for these people, but we don’t have that right now. We have to offer them other solutions. It is a disease, it should be treated as such.

(Also let me clarify a bit, I’m specifically talking about American and European conversion therapy. I’m aware there is actual torture based conversion therapy in other countries, especially in Africa and Central America)

And to clarify what electro shock therapy even is and it’s uses, this is a helpful non biased article. Electro shock is not a barbaric practice, and has been successfully used to treat depression in many cases. It is entirely different from the electro shock “torture” they write in these articles about gay conversion therapy. https://amp.health.com/depression/10-myths-and-facts-about-shock-therapy

The only clinical use for electro shock therapy is for extremely depressed individuals where anti depressants can never help, and that also with sedatives.

Or like extreme mania.

And what people tend to have extreme depressive behaviors and illnesses? ... gay people.

And the gay people that have sought out electro therapy don’t get this treatment at conversion camps.

It’s at licensed medical practices

Even if that’s true, that doesn’t address the orientation.

Depression is tied with the orientation. Depression and other mental illnesses leads to multiple destructive behaviors, and one of the most common of these behaviors is sexual deviancy.

If you want to continue this though, we should probably go to DMs before we get yelled at lmao

Well we’re not going to get yelled at, and I think this is civil.

I just thought that because this is more of a personal conversation at this point because it’s just the two of us talking

Also I’m really new and not super familiar with the rules

But there could be a multitude of explanations for greater depression in that community. It’s not as if a majority of geys are depressed enough to do EST and that it will address both issues.

I will say this, sometimes gayness is triggered by extreme depression and something depression is triggered by gay practices

Either way, if you eliminate the depression, it still overall contributes to the persons mentality in positive way

Maybe