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...Depo-Provera programs are under way in at least six locations. A program at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem also includes "aversion therapy," in which sex offenders are shown sexually enticing slides and are subjected to foul odors or mild electric shocks if they become aroused because of deviant feelings. Not all specialists in the field are impressed by these experiments. Richard Seely, who runs a highly regarded psychotherapeutic program for rapists and child molesters in Minnesota, considers Depo-Provera dangerous. He cites two men who became so depressed while taking it that they committed suicide...
...Western State Hospital, patients make tape recordings, talking about their deviant sexual fantasies. The tape is played back and when it comes to the moment of sexual gratification, the script is changed so that something awful happens. Statistics show that 78% of those who complete the program at Western State have not so far committed other sex crimes. At the state prison in Avenel, N.J., a facility built solely for sex offenders, prisoners undergo fantasy reconditioning, masturbating for about an hour, until it is physically painful, to deviant fantasies...
...other words, you're damned if you do and demand if you don't--"deviant" behavior is unacceptable, but leaving the village would be an even more heinous crime. And while Bertrande and her husband are physically threatened by those who suspect Martin is an impostor, it never occurs to the couple to begin again in another town. But that is only a solution in today's mobile, even rootless, society: in 16th-century France, even train travels would have been far too swift...
...thousands of years, homosexuality has been considered deviant and unnatural behavior. Would your movie reviewer have us believe that a few new '82 films will make it an acceptable alternate lifestyle...
...group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force: "If gayness is seen not as a deviant life-style but as something that happens to a lot of people, this can only be positive...