Opinion | Luis Mancheno: 'No one should have to go through the same abuse I experienced, and that’s why it shocks me that conversion therapy is still legal in the majority of the U.S.' - NBCNewsTHINK
from the subject and instead allow parents and other concerned individuals to commit people to these clinics against their will. In my case, I went to this clinic voluntarily because I wanted to make my parents happy.
Other days at the clinic, the doctor would sit right next to me and would make me watch straight porn. He would ask me to describe the body parts of the women that aroused me and forced me to tell him what I wanted to do with them. After those sessions, I would come home and cry myself to sleep — after praying for God to change me.
My 16-year-old sister was often interrogated on whether I had ever sexually assaulted her, because according to the doctor, gay people were more likely to be sexual predators.
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