They are horrific images of young Chinese men with electrodes placed
near their genitals and on their head before being subjected to huge
doses of electric voltage to try and rid them of their homosexuality.
It's
been revealed that men are still regularly subjected to gay electric
shock therapy in China, 15 years after it was no longer classified a
'mental illness'.
Hospitals across the country continue to offer
the brutal treatment, saying they can 'cure homosexuality'. Their
barbaric methods are exposed by the Dateline program.
Viewers are taken inside medical facilities like the Tianjin Mental
Health Hospital where undercover activist, John Shen, is told he can be
prescribed drugs and shock therapy.
'It’s a small electric rod, when you have these urges, you shock
yourself with the rod, then you know you should avoid these urges,' a
psychiatrist tells Mr Shen.
In one particularly confronting image it appears a nurse even places
electrodes near the man's genitalia as he calls out that 'I'm nervous'.
'Now what I want to make you to feel is scared,' the clinician tells him as she sends the charge through his body.
China outlawed the classification more than 15 years ago but that hasn't
stopped the shocking practice taking place in medical facilities.
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| Undercover reporter |
Another 'patient' went ahead with the treatment at the Huashan Hospital to secretly recorded the process.
'When these urges arise, you can take a cold shower or go jogging to
release the excess hormones,” a psychiatrist suggested to him before
offering the electric shock treatment. He is told it costs $800 each
time and that several appointments will be required for him to be
'cured'..
Electrodes are attached to the man's head, which goes numb as the
voltage is turned up.'He’s told it will rebalance his nervous system.'
Culled from Mailonline
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