“These programs have been around since the 1970s. In earlier versions, men would have their testicles strapped to electrodes and they’d be electrocuted while being shown pictures of men. This was the idea of shocking the gay out of you,” said writer Ted Cox who, over the course of the past two years, posed as a gay man. He attended weekly meetings for several months at two churches in California and a two-day camp at a ranch in northern Arizona in February, both geared toward one end: turning homosexual men and women straight.
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via Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy.