# Ah Ha! So homosexual aversion therapy does work after all! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452 "2004-09-22T07:36:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/1 "2004-09-22T07:36:11Z")
Apparently all you need to turn straight are plummeting record sales. [Tatu to turn heterosexual from ‘lesbians’](http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2004/09/21/4) via Fark ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/2 "2004-09-22T07:52:31Z")
What the article doesn’t mention is that they’ve signed up Janet Jackson as their PR. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/3 "2004-09-22T12:22:38Z")
Should make a show titled… “when record sales plummet” ---
**Author:** ![The\_27th\_Evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@The\_27th\_Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_27th_Evil)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/4 "2004-09-22T12:50:46Z")
Yes, the record sales were bad because of the “lesbian thing”. It certainly wasn’t the godawful pubescent caterwauling or anything like that… ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/5 "2004-09-22T13:36:19Z")
Gee, and I was SO convinced that they were gay. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/6 "2004-09-22T13:36:31Z")
> [@from article](#): > > They complained that they were seen as a novelty act rather than serious musicians. Awww. While I never believed it was more than a publicity stunt, I do enjoy my English/Russian CD full of gay empowerment music (like “Magic Gay”). I don’t know if I’ll appreciate them as much without the harmonized angst of dealing with being closeted, homophobia, and parents, all set to European sugar techno. I’m completely serious. Plus, the videos are kinda hot. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/7 "2004-09-22T15:28:48Z")
So, if their sales go up, will they turn bi? Will their be pictures? If they don’t start selling records, will they have to turn celibate? And what kind of pictures would there be then, huh? HUH??? These are important questions, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/8 "2004-09-22T15:55:16Z")
Wonder what kind of market forces would be necessary to make them go furry? Cuz I’d buy that album. Or at least, not change the channel when their video came on. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/9 "2004-09-22T16:46:27Z")
Bwahahahahah… um, sorry to say this but… Worried about being considered a novelty act? Could it have to do with having a pair of cute half-dressed minors doing fem-on-fem makeout sessions onstage, which probably distracted from the bad lip-synching? Don’t get me wrong, that was Good. It was Very Good. But it was doomed to end fast. Very fast. I mean, how many records need you buy when what you want is just the video of them doign ATTSS on Euro-TV with NO cutting away from all the tongue-wrestling? (Curse you, American TV!) If they had a vision to somehow morph into a dance-pop version of the Indigo Girls, once the “cute teens” factor was gone, I say that maybe concentrating a little more on the singing and a little less on the shortie skirts would have been in order. But I certainly would not have enjoyed it as much 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-ha-so-homosexual-aversion-therapy-does-work-after-all/265452/10 "2004-09-24T05:01:39Z")
Tatu made music? I thought they were just a faux lesbian ad to turn on the wankers.