An academic in Kuwait has made some freakish claims regarding queerness in a video recording audience on Kuwait City broadcaster Scope TV . Dr Mariam Al - Sohel , who is not a medical physician , claimed that gay men have a worm in their anus that feed on semen . Luckily , like all serpent - oil colour sellers , she has regain a cure for it . The curative apparently works for gay woman as well .
“ The intimate urge develops when a individual is sexually set on . And afterward , it persist because there is an anal dirt ball that feed on semen . It feed on sperm cell . So , what I did was to produce suppository , which are to be used by certain multitude at a certain time . It bring around those itch by exterminate the insect that feeds on the sperm , ” Dr Al - Sohel states in the video .
It give out without say that all of this is nonsense . It might be shameful for some , but being sunny is more than just anal sexual urge , and we sincerely doubt that this semen - exhaust anal retentive worm would have much food for thought in sapphic relationships .
The video was shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute ( MEMRI ) with the claim that the cure is free-base on Muslim “ Prophetic Medicine ” . sovereign translation of the video requested by IFLScience instead have Dr Al - Sohel talk about her own personal beliefs rather than Islamic prophetic feeling as the title states . MEMRIhas antecedently been accusedof selectively translate magazine from Arabic TV station in the Middle East . The twisting of scientific discipline and the law to penalize LGBTQ+ mass is not exclusive to Kuwait , far from it . The rights for sexual and gender nonage are terrible around the world .
Onlynine countries(Nepal , Fiji , South Africa , Malta , Bolivia , Ecuador , Mexico , Sweden , and Portugal ) have protective covering against favoritism with regard to sexual preference in their organization . Being jolly is still criminalize in 73 countries . In the US , the supreme court will soon settle ifit ’s legal to firepeople for being LGBTQ+ . fury against transgendered people is at anall - prison term highin the US and the media has been demonizing and mischaracterizingtrans * issuesin the United Kingdom .
But feed that the “ cure ” proposed by Al - Sohel is akin to rebirth therapy , permit ’s discuss that . changeover therapy assumes that homosexuality is a genial disorder that can be “ bring around ” using behavioral therapy , electric shocks , and/or leukotomy . These approaches can be harmful and ineffective , yet continue to be practiced extensively worldwide .
Only nine nation outright ban conversion therapy . Malta , Switzerland , and a few authorities in Spain are the only places in Europe where it is banned . The exercise in the US is banned in 16 states , in DC , and Puerto Rico , and in a smattering of counties and municipalities . Just this January , theIsrael Medical Associationhas moved to expel doc performing conversion therapy , although the practice is still effectual as an attempt to outlaw it in 2016 was rejected by the Knesset .
The takeout food of this story is not just how silly these claim seem to be . It ’s that almost everywhere in the world , LGBTQ+ people are consistently study 2nd - class citizens .
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