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Show 131 unchaperoned intimate dates of the very young.'?' In a BYU devotional the following year, Kimball explicitly condemned using someone for mere sexual gratification, which rendered the person "a thing to be used, a thing to be exploited, and make him or her exchangeable, exploitable, expendable, and throwawayable?" Although Wayne Hewitt's BYU therapist justified petting as a remedy for the more serious sin of homosexuality, an ambivalence remained within the church over using women as therapeutic objects for "curing" male homosexuality when premarital sex or pornography were involved. This was apparent in Max Ford McBride's BYU doctoral dissertation on electroshock aversion therapy. Significantly, his study did not question the ethics of electroshock therapy or its effectiveness for treating homosexuality. Instead, McBride examined the moral and ethical issue of using nude photographs, particularly pictures of nude women, as visual cue stimuli (v.c.s.): "Such considerations should be particularly important at religious and privately endowed institutions where the use of nude v.c.s. has been challenged on the grounds that it is offensive and not therapeutically warranted." The ensuing trial divided fourteen college-age Mormon men showing "clinical evidence" of homosexuality into two groups for aversive conditioning. The study used photos of nude men and women for one group, photos of nude men and fully clothed female models for the other. Based on a single follow-up evaluation, McBride concluded that a combination of nude male and clothed female visual cue 91Kimball, "A Counseling Problem in the Church." 92Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust," Speech at Brigham Young University Devotional, 5 January 1965, archives, historical department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City. |
