7. Shock therapy was the official cure for homosexuality
Before 1973, homosexuality was actually considered a mental disorder and homosexuals were often admitted to mental institutions where they would face shock therapy. What is shock therapy you ask? The “mentally disabled” would be shown images on a slide, with some being neutral, which showed women and others, being stimuli, which showed men. Note that this example is based on male patients and was available for women too. The stimuli slides would shock the patients via electrodes while the neutral slides would elicit no reaction, thus conditioning the person to change his preferences to the opposite gender. Worked like a charm, as evidenced by no homosexuals in the world.
