: Patients were subjected to electroconvulsive shocks while being shown erotic images to create a painful association with their desire.
While legal progress has been made in many regions, the community faces modern, often violent, "shocks": shocking free gay
Before the 1970s, homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder. To "fix" what they deemed deviancy, psychiatrists used methods that are now considered torture: : Patients were subjected to electroconvulsive shocks while
: Some doctors, like Austrian endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, believed gay men simply lacked "masculine" hormones and performed testicle transplantations —castrating gay men and replacing their organs with those of "heterosexual" donors. the community faces modern