In South Africa, a woman claims a member of her church kicked her in the groin, multiple times, because she wanted to convert the lesbian to heterosexuality. It sort of makes the techniques of George Alan Rekers, the disgraced Baptist minister, sound pretty decent.
His training as a certified parenting expert, Rekers, who has five grown children, recommended parents rid their boys of feminine characteristics by spanking it out of them. In the 1970s, he created the Feminine Boy Project at UCLA (!), where he
was presented with a 4-year-old “effeminate boy” named Kraig, whose parents had enrolled him in the program. Rekers put Kraig in a “play-observation room” with his mother, who was equipped with a listening device. When the boy played with girly toys, the doctors instructed her to avert her eyes from the child.
According to a 2001 account in Brain, Child Magazine, “On one such occasion, his distress was such that he began to scream, but his mother just looked away. His anxiety increased, and he did whatever he could to get her to respond to him… Kraig became so hysterical, and his mother so uncomfortable, that one of the clinicians had to enter and take Kraig, screaming, from the room.”
Rekers’s research team continued the experiment in the family’s home. Kraig received red chips for feminine behavior and blue chips for masculine behavior. The blue chips could be cashed in for candy or television time. The red chips earned him a “swat” or spanking from his father. Researchers periodically entered the family’s home to ensure proper implementation of the reward-punishment system.
After two years, the boy supposedly manned up. Over the decades, Rekers, who ran countless similar experiments, held Kraig up as “the poster boy for behavioral treatment of boyhood effeminacy.”
But how do we know if the treatment was actually effective?
At age 18, Rekers’ star patient attempted suicide.
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This man is a monster.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I am 100% certain that any day now the doors on this scumbags vile hate filled closet are going to open wide. And many very small skeletons are going to come tumbling out.…………
Mike L.
I would love for this man to have the living sht beat out of him. See if this will “cure” HIM.
fubar
Link to the source please? Not doubting, but would love to read more
Shade
I won’t be happy with anything less than his head on a spike.
thedarkchariot
Wait so this shit is real?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRhVcJsypg
WTH?!
Lamar
Number 1657 why I don’t sympathize with ‘ex gays’ and those who sympathize with them.
DillonS
Any child that was put through this should start a class action suit and bring this man down even lower than he is now!
scott ny'er
@fubar: As you allude to, if this is true, then this man should be sued. For inflicting psychological damage upon children and adults. What an evil person. And to think it stems from one book, how it’s interpreted, and self-hate.
Penn
Can you put in a link to the Miami New Times story on this?
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/before_he_hired_an_escort_reke.php
Thanks!
B
No. 8 · scott ny’er wrote, “@fubar: As you allude to, if this is true, then this man should be sued. For inflicting psychological damage upon children and adults. What an evil person. And to think it stems from one book, how it’s interpreted, and self-hate.”
Unfortunately, there is something called a statute of limitations. The details vary from state to state and depend on the nature of the offense. In California for “Professional Malpractice”, it is dependent on the profession: “Legal malpractice, 1 year from date of discovery, to a maximum of four years from the date of the wrongful act. Medical malpractice, 3 years from the date of the injury, or one year from the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the injury, whichever occurs first.” Source: http://www.expertlaw.com/library/limitations_by_state/California.html .
The “stems from one book” (I presume you mean the Bible) is not true. Other ancient prohibitions in it (eating shellfish) are routinely ignored, and recent research has found interesting fact about religious beliefs. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18216-dear-god-please-confirm-what-i-already-believe.html describes some research using MRI scans that show that the same parts of the brain are activated when you ask religious people (Christians, in the research) what “God” believes and what they believe. Different parts of the brain are active when they ask what others believe. It’s pretty funny, but the bottom line is that their religious beliefs are tracking their prejudices more than vice versa.
scott ny'er
@B: So really religion is an excuse. And it’s just pure prejudice and hatred from the individual. Interesting.
Thanks for that link.
D Smith
so rekers set it up so an apparently transgendered child was beaten into denial… and then attempted suicide… all this while touting himself as an “expert” witness when every single psychological organization with respected peer review processes reject any form of these therapy’s… lovely…