QSaltLake Magazine states that two participants of the BYU/McBride gay aversion therapy research, "committed suicide during the experiment."
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- QSaltLake Magazine CriticNon-LDS
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Staff, "Mo’s vs. ’Mos: The battle between Mormons and Gays," QSaltLake Magazine, September 14, 2009, accessed July 21, 2022
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- QSaltLake Magazine
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- Reading Public
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Electro-shock Therapy
Also as late as 20 years ago, the church counseled men with homosexual tendencies to participate in shock-aversion, vomit-aversion and other heinous experimental therapies.
At church-owned Brigham Young University, Dr. D. Eugene Thorne, head of BYU’s Psych Department, oversaw doctoral student Max Ford McBride in his PhD dissertation involving experiments on gay men using gay and straight pornography with electric-shock therapy. They study started out with 16 gay male BYU students and staff, but two committed suicide during the experiment, so the study ended up with 14 subjects.
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