The Cult of The Troubled Teen Industry
Sounds Like A Cult
I've Never Smoked Weed Again.
Straight ink was an organisation that used mind control techniques to scare people into being straight. The term scared straight reminds me a lot of conversion therapy, because i feel like it probably had a double ontondra. By the 19 nineties, these tough love, military style boot camps and wilderness programmes were common. There's definitely overlap between the trouble teen industryand conversion theraby.
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