Conversion Therapy used to treat psychological disorders such as Homosexuality fell out of practice in the latter half of the twentieth century, less for sound scientific reasons and more for counter-culture protests aimed at intimidating the concensus.
As a result, we’ve been left with a awkward society wide problem… as homosexuality is now forbidden to be approached as a disorder or a disease, and in many areas, such as California and England the very idea of Gay Cures have been outlawed- we are left with a inversion paradox, as other, similar disorders are still systematically reacted against legally via the penal code that can just as easily be described via the Psuedo-Science of protest lobbying psychologist that justified the unquestioning banning/ non-diagnosis of homosexuality and by that, exploring possible treatments to counter their disorders.
So we now live in a society were one set of psychological disorders are culturally applauded as the new normal -homosexuality- while similar disorders, such a pedophilia, repetitive rape, necrophilia, incest, beastility, and sexual cannabalism are left in the lurch… as they fit many of the non-curable diagnosis that were applied to justify open acceptance of homosexuality.
I’m left to wonder where ultimately this is going to leave us, if we’re not already quickly reaching this point, as a society: Will sexuality be judged not in what it is as a experience from the thinking of the sexualized individual… or will the only acceptable outlook in time be the ‘fear and non-tolerance factor’ by society on a whole looking back at individuals, preferring not to explore some classes of sexual disorders for cultural, non-scientific reasons, perfecting locking them up instead of focusing on developing a quantifiable science that can cure them in time, bringing them back into society, due to the slippery slope of the cures eventually encompassing other disorders such as homosexuality.
How accepting society is, for example, of homosexuality is determined by the degree of fiat control homosexuality has on the populations media- high in San Francisco and London, Low in Atlanta and Moscow, though populations in each city possess a similar educational level. However, necrophilia is equally disgusted in all four. Pedophilia is slightly more tolerated by some factors of control, such as university acceptance, as some sexuality professors (one in SF I can recall there, more in Vancouver) out in support of it along lines similar to the support current in the ideology that supports homosexuality- its a ‘natural variant of sexuality’, not curable and only desired to be cured in the face of social pressures to conform.
I think it comes down to the fear factor. Parents are fearful their children will be raped. People are afraid when thy die their bodies will be used by necros. People, especially women, fear being raped. Our legal codes are enforced in a democracy of fear, and the practices are pushed underground. In the case of gays, they reversed the role until we gain the opposite current, heterosexuality being increasingly pushed underground into a submissive role, which is counter logical given the role heterosexuals play in maintaining population levels.
Psychology today isn’t apparently tackling this from the perspective of sexual genesis of attraction, how perversions become cemented through secretive isolation and reinforcement, and then brought mainstream into acceptance, except of course when it needs to validate homosexuality, while other forms of sexual dysfunction are left in the lurch.
Our laws are split, as homosexuality is decriminalized, perophilia and rape remains actively persecuted in courts. They can be treated as psychological disorders as society is still willing to recognize them as such, or they can choose to humanize them (rarely) otherwise they are thrown into a prison system with absolute neglect and contempt.
I don’t see how its possible to reform the prison system, with its high numbers of rapists and pedophiles especially, without revisiting a need for a unified theory of sexuality, impulse, and perversion, and this is going to by default require reopening the discussion on gay homosexuality- which though isn’t as threatening to society, is clearly not natural and requires constant cultural conditioning of both youths and the larger population on a whole to accept them and to completely turn away form its detractors, especially the role they played in the AIDS crisis and destabilizing straight long term relationships by removing several thousands of years of restrictions civilization placed over marriage to ensure families remain together and youths don’t grow up psychotic, as they are increasingly now.
This will be difficult given how aggressive the gay advocacy groups are, protesting attempts by the APA in particular in recent years to reevaluate their position, causing them to shut down efforts before they officially met.
Until hard science is allowed to be explored and gros, and freedom of scientific thought enlarged, and not Psuedo-Science in mandating gay normality, we are going to be left without the possibility of a unified theory regarding sexuality, its debilitating perversions, and how to cure people of their conditions- as a result, the prison population will always be high in these categories, due to our neglect to look for a cure for repeat offenders… or far worst, we will have to be subjugated to lifelong efforts to continuously reeducate us to be accepting and friendly of all these disorders operating openly in our midst, from our children being molested, our female members of society being slways raped, and our dead molested and eaten.
I see this latter reality increasingly emerging, with little inherently good to justify it. It’s time to take psychology out of its dark ages and start pushing it to become a hard science, capable of resolving these core issues if sexual disorder that saturate the criminal elements of every society on earth.