In the previous post we stopped at the fact that… you can’t rid of it, but…
American psychiatrist Gene Able in the course of his experiment was able to succeed in 85% of cases out of 199 subjects. With his help, all these people got rid of paraphilia. In its time, it revolutionized.
What is the essence of his method? It’s quite simple. If you are a male, for sure you know this moment when after an orgasm, things that excited you very much, suddenly becomes indifferent or even disgusting. In scientific language this is called the refractory phase. Such is the nature of the male orgasm: before you cum the desired sexual object is almost deified, immediately after it, it loses all its charm. So…
Gene Able offered his patients to masturbate, bringing themselves to orgasm, while imagining the traditional normal sexual act. Immediately after orgasm, men had to continue to masturbate, imagining scenes of their fetish that they wanted to get rid of. Men had to do it daily for a year. Thus, the man ceased to perceive his paraphilic fantasies as before. And if earlier they were the most powerful arousal factor for him, now they are becoming psychologically boring and physically ineffective for him, in general they are losing their erotic appeal.
This method is based on positive and negative reinforcement to strengthen or weaken the conditioned reflex (you know, like Dr. Pavlov’s dogs).
And yes! You may remember that the same method was tested on the protagonist of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange in an attempt to cure him of his desire for violence.
However, these results cannot be considered ideal either.
- First, a person is required to consciously give up what gives him genuine and true pleasure, and not every human brain is capable of such a feat. The replacement of the sexual object, no matter how much you reinforce it, will still not be as bright and will not cause the same storm of emotions as the object defined as a sexual fixation.
- Secondly, this is definitely an unpleasant procedure. There are hardly many people who want to torture themselves like this.
- Third. A temporary weakening of the attraction to “atypical” sexual objects is not yet a cure as such, relapses are possible.
