This is directly from the article you just mentioned:
"Accounts by former patients depict a grim routine at Straight. "Newcomers" were required to be trailed at all times by a series of "oldcomers," who literally were to keep a finger through the newcomer's belt loop at all times -- even when the newcomer went to the bathroom. "Therapy" consisted of mainly sitting straight for 10 hours a day, confessing sins. A teen who wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic in his or her confession would be thrown to the floor and immobilized, often for hours.
Immobilization was also the punishment for other infractions -- such as eye contact between a boy and a girl, or slouching. Television, music, and reading were frequently forbidden. So was unsupervised contact with parents or other outsiders. The program had a, shall we say, fundamentalist view of sexuality. Girls were made to confess sexual transgressions in detail, while boys yelled "Slut!" and "Whore!" at them. Boys were sometimes forced to dress in drag as punishment for transgressions"
Ok. Nobody had fun at straight, but the exagerations and often outright lies are not helping anybody win over anti straight sentiment.
Nobody was held by the beltloop while using the bathroom.
Confessing Sins for 10 hours a day???
Who the hell was thrown on the floor and immobilized for not being "sufficiently enthusiastic"
When I was in straight, if you made eye contact with a girl you got confronted, not restrained. I never saw anyone get restrained for slouching either (although I got some knuckles to the back, which sucked)
If someone ever called a girl a slut or whore when she was talking about a sex incident, they would have been in deep shit. I did hear of a staff member accusing a girl of being a whore, but I never witnessed anything like that.
And the stupidest....
Boys made to dress in drag as punishment?

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Come On!!!!!
Wasn't it bad enough without making up bullshit stories.
::puke::