The 1 problem with conversion therapy
James Dobson is dead (+what to do if your kid comes out to you)
So James Dobson is dead (yes, yes, we pray for his soul blablabla). And everyone is continuing to whine about how terrible conversion therapy is. Needless to say, cracks in pomo neither endorses conversion therapy nor outrightly condemns it. We have published a variety of takes on people switching from queer to str8:
- wrote about new versions of conversion therapy, and why zoomers have little interest in it; we also interviewed him about his article (and his experience in conversion therapy) on the pod
I wrote about the Dear Alana podcast and the Paglian case for bisexual responsiveness
And I wrote about young people who flipped from gay to bi/straight WITHOUT the help of conversion therapy in Compact Magazine (my most underrated piece ever)
We have a lot more thoughts about conversion therapy. But we thought we’d take this momentous occasion to tell what our main problem with it is: If you are trying to change your “sexual orientation,” that probably means that you are super gay.
