When the former Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answered a student at New York, Columbia University regarding the executions of gays in Iran, his answer was “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who told you we have that” This statement drew boos and howls from the audience (Daily Mail, 2007).
Being a homosexual in Iran is a problem, it is looked like as a disease, where the only cure is either having a sex change, or suppressing their feeling through medications. Although if you do not suppress these kinds of feelings, you will be executed. Many human right organization have protested the executing of homosexuals in Iran, but the Iranian government answers back by pointing …show more content…
Behavioral therapy is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing behaviors, in this case the doctors are helping the patients with a “homosexual disease” to change their sexual behavior, from bad behavior to good. While these confused homosexuals are talking to their doctors, regarding these same-sex feelings and are being told that the feelings they have is an illness, and by using the behavioral therapy, the doctors and psychologist goal is to eliminate unwanted behaviors. The behavior itself, in this case being an attracted to the same sex, is the problem, and the goal is to teach these patients new behaviors to minimize or eliminate the issue (Bellack, A. & Hersen, M. …show more content…
This theory can be defined as a process to empower people to make healthy lifestyle choices, and to motivate them to become better self-managers (Ricketts, n.d.). As mentioned, the posters that were located in the hospital was a example of a health promotion. However, this theory is looked more into the programs where is to improve nutrition, such as reduce the use of tobacco and alcohol, but by looking at it on another perceptive, it has it similarities.
This problem is jet not solved in Iran; there are still human rights organization around the world that condemns what is happening to these homosexuals such as the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned the publicly hanging of a 16 and a 18 year old boys for being homosexual, however, the Iranian government do not care about it (Human Rights Watch, 2005).
It is sad to see that this country was once a modern and open-minded country, suddenly change for the worst. I remember when I was visiting my relatives in Iran when I was around 16 years old, and I know by then that I was attracted to men, so when I asked one of my closest cousins of what would happen if one should say that they were gay, she told me that I had to be quite about it, if not, they would hang me. Coming from Norway, where homosexuality is tolerated to Iran were it is not, was shocking to me, and I felt sick to my stomach just thinking
Being a homosexual in Iran is a problem, it is looked like as a disease, where the only cure is either having a sex change, or suppressing their feeling through medications. Although if you do not suppress these kinds of feelings, you will be executed. Many human right organization have protested the executing of homosexuals in Iran, but the Iranian government answers back by pointing …show more content…
Behavioral therapy is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing behaviors, in this case the doctors are helping the patients with a “homosexual disease” to change their sexual behavior, from bad behavior to good. While these confused homosexuals are talking to their doctors, regarding these same-sex feelings and are being told that the feelings they have is an illness, and by using the behavioral therapy, the doctors and psychologist goal is to eliminate unwanted behaviors. The behavior itself, in this case being an attracted to the same sex, is the problem, and the goal is to teach these patients new behaviors to minimize or eliminate the issue (Bellack, A. & Hersen, M. …show more content…
This theory can be defined as a process to empower people to make healthy lifestyle choices, and to motivate them to become better self-managers (Ricketts, n.d.). As mentioned, the posters that were located in the hospital was a example of a health promotion. However, this theory is looked more into the programs where is to improve nutrition, such as reduce the use of tobacco and alcohol, but by looking at it on another perceptive, it has it similarities.
This problem is jet not solved in Iran; there are still human rights organization around the world that condemns what is happening to these homosexuals such as the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned the publicly hanging of a 16 and a 18 year old boys for being homosexual, however, the Iranian government do not care about it (Human Rights Watch, 2005).
It is sad to see that this country was once a modern and open-minded country, suddenly change for the worst. I remember when I was visiting my relatives in Iran when I was around 16 years old, and I know by then that I was attracted to men, so when I asked one of my closest cousins of what would happen if one should say that they were gay, she told me that I had to be quite about it, if not, they would hang me. Coming from Norway, where homosexuality is tolerated to Iran were it is not, was shocking to me, and I felt sick to my stomach just thinking