August 3, 2011
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Cuddling the Gay Away
An organization that helps cure gay people from gayness uses therapy that includes having the gay men hug each other.
The leader of the group feels that those who are gay missed out on healthy same-sex touching from their father. So the men give each other bear hugs and wrestle around. Here is the link: Link
Did your father hug you as a child?
Comments (75)
Lol, what? That’s so silly.
hahahaha that’s an interesting concept…..
Asian fathers don’t hug their sons!
Lol.
The things people come up with, I swear.
…The fuck?
Man, I would so fuck the gay out of you, Dan.
Haha, wow. How’s that therapy approach working? : )
The overwhelming potential for abuse… is amazing, here. But it also makes me sad, in a way (while acknowledging the irony of the article) – why can’t people touch others, anymore? Why did a simple HUG become instant sexual harassment? (Though, I know why… because some people took it too far. I get it… it makes sense. It doesn’t make it less sad, though, as the author of the article pointed out in the concluding sentence.)
sounds like my type of therapy! Can we make them naked hugs? Oh and can we watch porn while hugging, that would make it way better.
Are you serious? Are THEY serious? Don’t they know gay isn’t a ‘disease’ or a phase? Don’t they realize that having gay men hug other gay men isn’t actually going to ‘make they gay go away’…? Why are people so dumb?
Latino fathers don’t hug their sons either. I was never hugged by my father and I prefer the little buffer zone we have today.
I think I would think my dad had lost his mind if he hugged me. The only reason he hugs my son is b/c it makes him cry.
What’s a father? Hmm, I think I’ll have to answer no to that question. I’m straight, by the way… the greatest “cure homosexuality” retreat I’ve ever seen was on Mr. Show with Bob and David… HILARIOUS!
well that would be a moot point in my case, but these aversion therapies are so stupid. And if my ga friend hugged another hot gay guy it would do the exact opposite.
that is weird and I don’t think that you would want to cuddle your sex i.d. away; would you?
hmm, this is interesting. are they seeing any positive results?
but isn’t that foreplay?
It’s always the father’s fault!
no he did not. he was aloof and physically intimidating. he slapped or condemned. to this day i am uncomfortable around straight men.
not that I remember.
sounds like a turn-on. at least for me to watch.
this is bs
I really do not see how this would “cure” homosexuality.
Both my parents hugged my sister and I a LOT as children… but she’s straight and I’m gay, lol.
My mom died when I was twelve. I haven’t had a mother’s hug in six years. I’m not gay. Jussayin’.
Did he even try? Really?
That’s the weirdest thing I’ve heard in a long time.
I guess my parents hugged me some . . . but it wasn’t a huge thing.
I date drag queens and this is even too gay for me!
My father has never hugged me in all my 23 years.
Nope, my dad’s Asian haha
What is this I don’t even
lol hugging my boyfriend has totally turned me off of men, and now i’m lesbian. who knew?
That is f-ing hilarious!!!
Went to the link and linked over to some Liberal Acorn dude who went on Marcus B. 8 day crash the gay away therapy and The therapy involved finding a “cause” of his homosexuality, focusing on the beauty of women, and affirming his masculinity.
Focus on the beauty of women? That is soo f-ing gay!! Hilarious..
You guys crack me up.
My dad hugged me a lot. I have an uncommonly awesome father.
I cuddle with my gay friends ^-^ And my straight friends
Yeah, Dad hugged me. So did mom. But I’m still attracted to both sexes
And it becomes clear that sex is the most important thing in life, and those who wish to shun it become monsters capable of inhumane brutality. And because I could not love, I was forced to hate. Because I hate, I remain virginity. My virginity fuels my hatred, more hatred pushes me away from love, and in my hatred, my soundness of mind, my consciousness, my ability to function has been jeopardized, deep down further in this hellish dark hole lies the truth… Because I could not have sex, I lost my humanity. Let’s try that again.
Because I could not love….at the bottom of the hole is a decayed state of existence, where love for me is pretending that Loborn is my soulmate.
As long as I can continue to pretend, I prolong some horrifying fate. When I can pretend no more, I will see myself for who I really am, and become insane in the process.
never. my mother is a single mom. most of the guys that I could relate to the most unsurprisngly also had absent dads. it didn’t make me gay but I put a high pedestal on guys that I’m interested in and mainly date overachiever snobs
I’m sure he did.
I think it’s disguised as therapy.
hahaha There ya go! Wait… do the leaders get in on all the action?
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This seems rather odd.
Yes. And I’m gay.
I’m straight. But my dad doesn’t hug me…Rarely does. My mom does.
I’m also a female… so… whatever.I love hugs. *HUGS!*
i think everyone’s father like do as that.
It’s sad for the news to make it big that it’s all Daddy’s fault for how children turned out. Girls become sexually active because Daddy isn’t around. Boys become gay because Daddy doesn’t hug or touch them enough.
It could be true just as much that not having a father in our lives effect how we will feel growing up, what we will become. But really, it may never matters. People still make choices due to peer pressure.
Having parents love is helpful on how people make choices. I believe that both parents should be loving either way!
So.. they think gay men touching each other is going to “stop” them from being gay? That’s not very well thought through… sounds like it’d just make them more into guys… lol.
I don’t think my father has ever hugged me and if he hugged my brother, I would be mighty surprised. Then again, I have no idea if my brother is gay. In any case, hugs are not sexual. End of story.
Not really hug me much, but I got a lot of attention like being held and played with. I’m straight. And the same from my mom. O.o
Hahhahahahha. My brother is gay and my parents hugged him all the time. This is ridiculous and awesome.
Yes, but not in a “gay” way.
“cure” people of gayness? what the fuck? I didn’t know gayness was a disease.
not even bothering to read the rest.
What the fuck? Does this mean I have to stop hugging my boyfriend if I don’t want to become a lesbian? *smh*
I would push my father away if he ever tried to hug me.
So if your dad doesn’t hug you enough, you become gay.
…That’s the premises they’re going with? Sounds like something Freud would say.
LOL.
Why can’t people be accepted for who they are instead of trying to be changed because people don’t like it? Just learn to accept it.
Does this mean all asian men are gay?
lol wut?
Oh, for crying out loud! If I hug a lot of women is it going to take the straight out of me?
Oh daddy troubles. You are to blame for everything. I’m not a man, so I don’t think its the same concept….but I got lots of hugs from my dad. I was a daddy’s girl and still am!
Bwahahahahahahahahahaaaa
I say what is the harm? If someone believes they are gay and they choose to go to this therapy then they must be wanting to change something? I know the question is did your father hug you or show affection but it was opened with quite the subject. I think it makes sense that men would choose men because of the loss of affection from their fathers, today (last I knew) the number is only rising with single mothers trying to raise their children. That there would be plenty of backlash from a fatherless society only makes sense. I’m not arguing whether same sex affections are right or wrong I’m just saying these guys are at least doing something for those who may feel they need to change.
There is so much ignorance about how some people love the same sex and I hate it. People are born that way, it’s been scientifically proven.
You don’t think gay men are hugging each other because… they’re gay?
There was a sitcom a while ago and it joked about how gay people would go to these pray the gay away events and treat them as places to hook up with others.
Yeah, but then I’m a straight (ish) girl as opposed to a gay guy.
Somehow I don’t think that kind of therapy would work…
haha my friends and i always joke people who are out of the box never got enough hugs as a kid
@hollowhopes - lol yep, always childhood’s fault.
It will never work.
Proof? (Sex-negative) women have been applying a variation of this therapy to their relationships with heterosexual men for ages.
so i’m straight, what does that mean?
was i hugged too much?
Um… it seems to me that if there was a way to “cure” gayness (which there isn’t), having them hug other men they find attractive would not be the way to get there. If anything, it would “cure” straightness.
hahahahhaaha i’d love to know the success rate of this
This reminds me of the ONE and ONLY time my dad hugged me @ the airport terminal when I was leaving the country to go study abroad years ago… MOST. AWKWARD. HUG. EVER.
Is it gay if you love only one person of the same sex and that person’s name is Dan? Why does everything wrong have to feel so right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j4ICes2i4
ummm. no.
I’m confused wouldn’t they like another man cuddling them?
Also cure? Do they think that homosexuality is contagious or a disease that must be ridden?
Smh.
Gay is not a kind of illness and asked them hugging each others just lead them want more right?
hmmmm I don’t remember Dan, did you? would you still love me if I married a man?