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"Cure Me, I'm Gay" - Channel 4 - 18/03/14
pburke90
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This is on tonight, Tuesday 18th March 2014 at 10:00pm. Will you be tuning in? Dr. Christian Jessen tries out various gay cure methods to see if he can be "cured" of homosexuality and exposes what some people get up to in the name of science, and usually for a fee.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-doctor-cure-me-im-gay
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-doctor-cure-me-im-gay
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I personally think it's rather sad that there are people out there that think being gay needs a 'cure'.
I can imagine this is going to cause a bit of a stir later on...
Ah, thank you for that, I wasn't paying close attention to the ad when I saw it.:)
Its a bit ironic to see 2 controversial documentaries in 2 days( one on BBC3 and one on Channel 4) and the BBC one to be the more balanced one.
But that's because I know being gay is about having a relationship with another person of the same sex, and everyone has relationships and everyone loves people of the same sex, so being gay isn't something I can't say "oh there's that dramatic thing you can define as gay; a gene, a sexual experience, a belief, a chemical in the brain and that makes a person gay" and then if it was defined as sex then this should be "cure me from having sex from someone that gets me aroused and I love and have feelings for"...and that's ridiculous.
This is a program hat will most benefit heterosexual people so I would advice them to watch it to see how horrific it is when insisting someone who is gay to not be themselves, because you'll learn how it can affect the human mind to not be their natural self. That is the start of mental health issues right there.
How can you expect a confident gay man to enter this with a completely open mind? He is not a self hating person who truly wishes to change and I highly doubt he views his sexuality as something that can truly be "cured". He's simply doing an experiment.
A century where I believe its important to investigate things before coming to conclusions, rather than just make up your mind before you start and do a documentary that claims to be an investigation but is really just an opportunity to air beliefs you already had, that were never going to change whatever you saw.
As I said, I don't. I would rather see the documentary done by a scientist who was impartial and was looking at both sides of the issue.
The trailer looks awful
How would that work? Who would be undergoing the treatment? How easy is it to find a gay man who is impartial to possibly having his sexuality changed?
In that scenario they'd be observing others going through the treatment and seeing what really happens and how it affects the individuals who, for whatever reason, have chosen that route.
Their really is no point in someone who's vehemently against it and doesn't believe in it undergoing treatment anyway.
I'm not sure that's true when it comes to other psychological treatments so I'm not sure why it would be in this case.
How could a scientist do a show like this without bias? There's no actual evidence that gay conversion therapy works. He would be taking the word of complete strangers with no scientific evidence to back up their claims.
I would hope that a scientist would be more likely to be able to investigate the evidence before them in a more balanced manner than a self styled diet doctor who frequently pushes ideas that little evidence as if they were fact.
What evidence can a scientist investigate that has not already been investigated?
As I said, they could investigate what was actually happening I front of them. I always thought that was the point of a documentary.
It has been done. What new "evidence" will the scientist be investigating?
So you're saying someone else has already been to the exact same places he is going to and done a documentary about it ?