Save Thousands - A Gay Cure For $12.99
[Source: Partial screen capture from hocdfree.com]
A New York website, HOCDfree.com, promises to cure HOCD, Homosexual Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The product, an e-book pamphlet for a mere $12.99, in that the author claims uses positive energy in the form of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques, to dissolve those annoying thoughts that you might be gay.
The site claims:
. . . So I decided to use EFT on my remaining programming. Within a matter of a a couple weeks my inner and outer behavior had been cleared of HOCD. I was free to be me. Free to flirt and date girls. Free to fall in love, and most of all free to enjoy my life. I decided when I was finally free of this that I would share it with the world so everyone else with these struggles could release and overcome them. I became a certified EFT practitioner, and have healed 7 of 7 HOCD sufferers. The longest client took 3 weeks.”
The problem:
The almost comical site sheds a quacky light on the site author. The author claims to be a certified EFT therapist, yet offers no credentials or educational background. There is no mention of what HOCD really is or what the acronym itself stands for. The same is done with EFT. Instead he simply drills on his own symptoms hoping he strikes a cord with others going through the same thing.
Perhaps the most critical point would be that the site author does a rather sloppy job of differentiating between HOCD and actual homosexuality. HOCD is the fear of being gay when one is not gay. The individuals are not attracted to the same sex but prefer the opposite sex. However, the obsession with the fear they might be gay overtakes their lives and causes some of them not to date at all.
The author’s intentions may be good, but his delivery is a bit off. Often a product is no better than its presentation. On a positive note, the site does not (in my opinion) seem to be anti-gay like some other organizations that attempt to treat homosexuality, not HOCD. Like Exodus, an ex-gay program, that charges its clients hundreds of dollars a week only to leave them more miserable than they were before.
In further research, HOCD is an anxiety and is best treated with behavioral modifications and medication as with any other anxiety disorder.
There is an excellent article that delves into HOCD a bit more. It can be found here.
Update: The site owner’s name was removed from this article at his request.
Can I get an AMEN?
what? I never heard of hocd until this moment. I checked out the site and i think the dude is bisexual. he checks out gay porn every night to see if he’s gay. wtf?
You have recently published an article about my website HOCDFREE.com. There is a misunderstanding here of who I am and what my website is. Now HOCD is a real form of Obsessive compulsive disorder that I used to suffer with as do countless others. This is not a “Gay cure” as I don’t beleive there is such a thing. You’re born straight or you’re born gay and you can’t change that. Whoever wrote this article misunderstood what I am doing. People with HOCD are straight people that have an OCD compulsion of worrying that there gay. Nothing more. These people know there not gay but obsess they might be. In a nutshell thats what OCD is. I have removed my website and all its content off the internet because of these alligations and lies. All I wanted to do was help people people with HOCD. You have discredited my name with this article and I please ask you to remove it from your website. Please email me back.
http://www.brainphysics.com/hocd.php
Thank You,
SO funny!
“Do you fear your gay?”
Do these people own a gay person to be frightened of?
More likely the author’s grip on the English language is as tenuous as his grip on reality.
Well I’d better get going. It seems I need to find some straight and lesbian porn to watch just to make sure I’m not secretly hetero.
If I were to have only one talent it would be how to push people’s buttons — Shame on me! But the truth is I just tell it like I see it. I mean no harm, honest!
I received the above comment from the site owner. It was actually left on the Suggest It! page so I moved it here where it belongs. His “suggestion” is not how to make my site better but how to make this post to better suit his needs. At his request I sent an email explaining that I would not delete my article. It was simply a review of his site and nothing that was intentionally meant to be personal. I’d post my email here but as you can imagine it’s quite lengthy. (I do tend get wordy at times…duh!)
I also suggested he put the site back up and just rewrite it with a more professional presentation and that would even review it again noting the changes.
I do not doubt the existence of HOCD. I’m sure it’s very real for those who experience it. There are a lot of forum threads discussing the OCD and the sufferers seem pretty real to me.
I received a reply thanking me and expressing his appreciation for my time. This time he only asked that I remove his personal identity from the article. I don’t have a problem with that. Done!
@ bearpupuk -
“It seems I need to find some straight and lesbian porn to watch just to make sure I’m not secretly hetero.”
haha… I thought the same thing when I first viewed the site.
Hey! there is no doubt that mental disorders do exist! HOCD? did he come up with this all by himself? I knew I was Gay before I knew what it was called! I played doctor with my cousins. I just liked the boys better! when I first saw porn it was my Dads playboys and I looked at the guys not the girls! If I watched a straight vido same thing! my fear was comming out and being rejected by family and friends! GOCD! I’m selling my own certified cure for only $9.99 call now!!!! Love ya Jere
@Jere -
Ring… Ring… Ring…
I hear ya man! Being gay can be a real bitch when making the decision to come out.