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Aversion therapy: gays suicidal, forced to watch straight porn

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Published: 19 July 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Education minister makes U-turn on remarks, now ‘utterly’ against gay aversion therapy

Minister walks back conversion therapy comments, says he opposes it ‘utterly’ (Times of Israel)
In letter to educators, Rafi Peretz asserts he ‘never’ suggested treatment to homosexuals, calls it ‘wrong’

Gay Israelis come forward to describe predatory, harmful conversion therapy (Times of Israel)
Men who grew up in religious families say scientifically dubious treatment forced them to watch heterosexual porn, drove them to suicide attempts

Porn, pain and guilt: religious homosexual Israelis recount 'conversion therapy' (Haaretz)
Told to punish and even endanger themselves when they had 'improper' thoughts, after the firestorm ignited by the education minister, religious homosexuals tell Haaretz about their trauma

Photo: A demonstration in Tel Aviv against Education Minister Rafi Peretz, on Sunday (Ofer Vaknin)
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