The debunked practice is currently only banned for minors in 18 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., while adults can legally be offered the service in all states and jurisdictions.
In rarer cases, it can involve aversion therapy such as electroshock, chemical, and deprivation treatments which proponents say can cause"heterosexual adjustment," the doctors said. Anyone can undergo the practice, but it is most common among young"Conversion therapy is rooted in the notion that any nonheterosexual inclination is a pathology in need of a 'cure,'" they wrote.
Streed said:"As a result of the lack of regulation on these 'therapies' many adults and children continue to be defrauded, harmed, and traumatized in the U.S. every day." In the late 1960s, doctors would advise gay people to marry opposite-sex partners, and prescribe encounters with sex workers as well as
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