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1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 min. 54 sec.) ; 138484579 bytes |
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Undercover filming reveals that electric shock therapy and drugs are still being used as 'cures' for gay people in China, while police closely monitor activists campaigning against it.It's 15 years since China stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness, yet Tuesday's Dateline shows that not all hospitals are obeying that ruling."When these urges arise, you can take a cold shower or go jogging to release the excess hormones," a psychiatrist at Tianjin Mental Health Hospital tells undercover activist, John Shen.But it's not her only suggested treatment - nausea-inducing drugs and electric shock therapy are also available."It's a small electric rod. When you have these urges you shock yourself with the rod. Then you know you should avoid these urges," she tells him.Another activist goes ahead with treatment in order to secretly film it at another hospital in Tianjin, just outside the capital Beijing.Electrodes are attached to his head, which goes numb as the voltage is increased. He's told it will rebalance his nervous system.The cost is the equivalent of nearly $800 for the first session and he's advised that it needs to be repeated several times in order for it to work.During filming, reporter Shaunagh Connaire also becomes very aware of how the LGBT campaigners are being watched by the authorities, but at the end of the story there is some good news in their fight for acceptance |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-11-10 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Gay men -- Societies, etc.
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Homosexuality -- Psychological aspects.
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Sex therapy.
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Sexual orientation -- Social aspects.
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Shock therapy.
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China -- Beijing.
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Streaming video
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Connaire, Shaunagh, reporter
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Wells, Patrick, reporter
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Li, Johnny, contributor
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Shen, John, contributor
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Xin, Ying, contributor
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