Monday, 24 March 2014

"Cure Me I'm Gay" - undercover doctor

This looks like an interesting doco. The bloke from Embarrassing Bodies Dr Christian Jessen, who is gay and in a long term relationship, goes undercover to a gay cure place.


It aired in England the other day, and their on demand thing doesn't work down here in Australia. Here's the link if you want to watch the whole thing online on UK's Channel 4. I can't find it on YouTube yet though, maybe in the future.  
Determined to play fair, he started out by proving his gay credentials with a test that involved a penile arousal gauge. It involved looking at porn; you can fill in the rest. It revealed that the good doc was more turned on by clouds (used to bring testees back to an unaroused state, bad news for cloud-fanciers) than women. That is, scarcely at all. Visibly chuffed, Dr Christian told us: ‘I’m about as gay as they come.’ 

So, off we went on a stomach-churning round of aversion therapy, Bible belting and much besides. Things got a bit confusing when he met an ex-ex-gay – a gay man who’d done rehab, become straight for a bit, then went back to being gay. It was an encounter that encapsulated the odd feeling we were going around in circles. 

Dr Christian took all the ‘cures’ and, at the end, was entirely unflabbergasted to find, courtesy of the penile arousal gauge, that he was just as gay as he was at the start. So, the cures don’t work. However, we never really got to the bottom of why so many are available. more
Update:

For those into torrents, it's here.

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