The scene was very odd because Dr. Thredson was very gentle
and almost nurturing toward his patient during this scene. Lana Winters is forced to look at
photos of nude men while putting her hands down her pants in order to trigger
some kind of sexual reaction. They
bring in a male subject, where Lana is asked to touch him. She can’t do it, and in between all of
these activities she is literally vomiting her guts out in a metal garbage
pail.
What struck me about this is that I never knew this actually
existed in medicine at one point in time.
To watch this scene alone was a very difficult thing to do because it
was so awkward and intense, but actually realizing that at one point
homosexuality was considered at one point to be like a disease that one can be
cured from, was mind-blowing.
The following are articles from both Quinto and Paulson
about what it was like shooting that scene.
I also found this blog where people were talking about the
episode.
What I also found shocking was that, in some research I did,
aversion therapy to treat homosexuality wasn’t declared a dangerous practice
(that didn’t even work) until 1994.
That wasn’t very long ago.
Does this fact surprise any of you?
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