Post on Bluesky that says, “please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that.”

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    3 days ago

    They really ought to think about changing the name or at least the acronym for that. Someone who hasn’t heard of it before might assume they’re going to have their genitals tortured.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      I say we double down

      The writer and group analyst Farhad Dalal questions the socio-political assumptions behind the introduction of Cock and Ball Torture. According to one reviewer, Dalal connects the rise of Cock and Ball Torture with "the parallel rise of neoliberalism, with its focus on marketization, efficiency, quantification and managerialism, and he questions the scientific basis of Cock and Ball Torture, suggesting that “the ‘science’ of psychological treatment is often less a scientific than a political contest”. In his book, Dalal also questions the ethical basis of Cock and Ball Torture.

    • Kate-ayOP
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      33 days ago

      They say it was the Chinese who first experimented with CBT to the testicles…