APARTHEID AND GAYS

>The Aversion Project was a medical torture program in South Africa led by Dr. Aubrey Levin during apartheid.

>The project (falsely) identified gay soldiers as conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF). Victims were forced to submit to "curing" their homosexuality because the SADF considered homosexuality to be "subversive".

>Between 1971 and 1989, victims were submitted to chemical castration and electric shock treatment meant to cure them of their homosexuality.

>Electrodes were strapped to the upper arm with wires, then run through a dial calibrated from 1 to 10, varying the current. Homosexual soldiers were shown pictures of a naked man and were encouraged to fantasize, at which a point the person-in-charge would administer a shock if the soldiers showed any form of sexual response and voltage was increased throughout the treatment if the soldiers continued to exhibit sexual responses.

>Project staff would force a sex change operation on those for whom the procedure failed and fake victims' birth certificates. As many as 900 homosexuals, mostly 16–24 year-old who had been drafted, were surgically turned into women and given birth certificates to fit their modified anatomy.

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Really makes you think...

sounds pretty shocking xD

Rightful dutch clay desu, fuck the brits

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>The pencil test is a method of assessing whether a person has Afro-textured hair. In the pencil test, a pencil is pushed through the person's hair. How easily it comes out determines whether the person has "passed" or "failed" the test.

>This test was used to determine racial identity in South Africa during the apartheid era, distinguishing whites from coloureds and blacks. The test was partially responsible for splitting existing communities and families along perceived racial lines. Its formal authority ended with the end of apartheid in 1994. It remains an important part of South African cultural heritage and a symbol of racism.

>In one famous case, a somewhat dark-skinned girl named Sandra Laing was born to two white parents. In 1966, when Sandra was age 11, she was subjected to a pencil test by "a stranger" and subsequently excluded from her all-white school when she failed the test. She was reclassified from her birth race of white to coloured. Sandra and the rest of her family were shunned by white society. Her father passed a blood type paternity test, but the authorities refused to restore her white classification.

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Aubrey Levin (born December 18, 1938)[1] is a convicted sex offender and was a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Calgary until March 2010, when his license was suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.[2] He was a key figure in The Aversion Project during the Apartheid era in South Africa.

Meanwhile, in 1995, Levin and his wife left South Africa and he became licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, Canada and later by Alberta's college in 1998.[8] In March 2010 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta suspended Levin's license[9] over accusations of abuse after a male patient secretly filmed the psychiatrist allegedly making sexual advances

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That wasn't really unusual at the time desu.

Homosexuality was recognised as a disease by the WHO until the early 90s (APA dropped it from DSM only a few years earlier). Apartheid regime ended in 1994.

Yet Slav countries still have anti gay laws today

>Slav countries
We don't. Why are Finns lumping all Slavs together? We were never part of Russia, unlike Finland.