Electroshock Conversion Therapy; McBride Dissertation [Part 12] (21 май 1959 г. – 1 янв 1983 г.)

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Shortly after a May 21, 1959 meeting at BYU, President Ernest Wilkinson, apostles Mark E. Peterson and Spencer W. Kimball, Dallin H. Oaks and the executive committee of the Church Board of Education discussed the "growing problem in our society of homosexuality." As a result of that meeting, BYU began a program of aversion therapy created to repair or reorient homosexuality among Mormon males.

The program consisted of a series of electroshock, vomit, visual, and pain stimulation therapies. The aversion therapy was instituted on-campus at BYU-Provo in 1959 and continued into the 1970s. Therapy was held in the basement of the Smith Family Living Center. After failing results and the details about the program leaked among students and members of the Church, BYU officials phased it out in 1983.

From the beginning of the program, LDS mental health counselors, Latter-day Saint bishops, stake presidents, mission presidents, general authorities, and the BYU Standards Office (equivalent to today's Honor Code Office) were the key sources in referring men to the BYU aversion program.

From 1971 to 1980, Dallin H. Oaks, then president of BYU, placed Gerald J. Dye as administrator over the University Standards Office (renamed the Honor Code Office in 1991). Dye testified that during his service over the Standards Office, the "set process" for homosexual BYU students referred to his office for "less serious" offences “was to require that they undergo some form of therapy to remain at BYU, and that in special cases this included electroshock and vomiting aversion therapies."

An independent BYU newspaper exposed the aversion therapy program and featured the stories of two men who were subjects of the BYU program. Shortly after both men independently confessed their homosexual feelings to the Standards Office, each were referred to the BYU Counseling Center where the electroshock aversion therapy was administered. Using pornographic pictures of males and females, and with electrodes fitted on their penises, the therapy was administered. Neither man in this report agreed that the program was successful. Their experiences match most reports which state that BYU’s homosexual aversion therapy was ineffective in changing sexual orientation.

Max Ford McBride, a student at BYU, administered electroshock aversion therapy on 17 men using a male arousal measuring device placed around the penis and electrodes on the bicep. He published a dissertation on the use of electrical aversive techniques to treat ego-dystonic homosexuality.

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