Episode 32

The Aversion Project

The Aversion Project was a medical torture program in South Africa led by Dr. Aubrey Levin during apartheid. The project identified gay soldiers as conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF). Victims were forced to submit to "curing" their homosexuality because the SADF considered homosexuality to be "subversive" and those who were homosexual were subject to punishment.The approach taken by the SADF to treating the homosexual and transsexual patients were done with extremely old knowledge that can be taken back to the ideologies of Havelock Ellis. Instagram: https://instagram.com/outoftheblank_podcast?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=1cw43c3w4mgqo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Out-Of-The-Blank-Podcast-1854335671358704/