Monday, May 17, 2010

George Rekers Presents: Spank the Gay Away


Spank the Gay Away, that could be Peaches' new song.

Anywho back in the day (the year of me), Rekers believed you could spank out the Gay demon. In fact he did experiments on it.
In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay movement, was presented with a 4-year-old "effeminate boy" named Kraig, whose parents had enrolled him in the program.

Rekers put Kraig in a "play-observation room" with his mother, who was equipped with a listening device. When the boy played with girly toys, the doctors instructed her to avert her eyes from the child.


According to a 2001 account in
Brain, Child Magazine, "On one such occasion, his distress was such that he began to scream, but his mother just looked away. His anxiety increased, and he did whatever he could to get her to respond to him... Kraig became so hysterical, and his mother so uncomfortable, that one of the clinicians had to enter and take Kraig, screaming, from the room." Rekers's research team continued the experiment in the family's home.

Kraig received red chips for feminine behavior and blue chips for masculine behavior. The blue chips could be cashed in for candy or television time. The red chips earned him a "swat" or spanking from his father. Researchers periodically entered the family's home to ensure proper implementation of the reward-punishment system.


After two years, the boy supposedly manned up. Over the decades, Rekers, who ran countless similar experiments, held Kraig up as "the poster boy for behavioral treatment of boyhood effeminacy."
Child Cheese, that's a mess. Besides, when I was paddled by my hot P.E. teachers, the Gay didn't go away... Hmm, maybe that's where my desires for rough men really started.

Learn something new everyday.

3 comments:

MDW said...

Nope, doesn't work. Believe me, I know... ;)

Wonder Man said...

I'm sure you do.

SteveA said...

That George Rekkers sounds like a complete numbskull! Someone should give him red chips and spank his arse - oh wait - maybe he'd like that fetish!

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