CNN special:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-irAT0viF0

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_AeCUSXfmU

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI6-g5hnRmg

In 1970, a well-known expert on homosexuality and transgender issues appeared on a local television talk show in Los Angeles to talk about feminine boys. He described how very young boys who behaved in a feminine manner would almost invariably grow up to become a homosexual. Alongside that expert was a gay man who described his own childhood and confirmed what the expert said. But there was hope, the expert announced. A new program at the University of California at Los Angeles would ensure these young boys grew up to become masculine, normal men. The expert gave a list of symptoms to watch out for, and urged his viewers to call him if their children exhibited the problems he described.

The mother of a four year, eleven month old boy saw that program that afternoon. She noted the list of symptoms that the expert gave and concluded that there was something seriously wrong with her son. She and her husband decided to take their young boy to UCLA for treatment to prevent him from growing up to be gay.

The boy's name was Kirk Murphy.  He was "treated" by a young UCLA grad named George Alan Rekers.

The UCLA treatment was partially successful.  Then, Kirk's therapy -- the one devised by George Alan Rekers -- went into the household.  Blue and red poker chips were used.  The mother explains:

“When Kirk would do something bad, or play with the doll instead of the train or the truck or whatever, he would get a red poker chip. If he picked up a helicopter or an airplane or did a boy thing, then he would get a blue chip. At the end of the day, I would deduct the red from the blue. And then however many blue chips there were, they told me to give him an M&M for each for a reward. And then I had to keep this all written down.”

Over time, the punishments got stronger -- they turned into beatings.

 But after a while, the therapy was deemed a success.  George Alan Rekers had made a name for himself in the psychology community, and wrote dozens of papers about Kirk (who was named "Craig" in the literature).

You may have already guessed the rest.  Kirk survived his ordeal, and he continued to grow up under relative anonymity. Neither he nor his family knew that he was the subject of nearly two decades of discussion among behavioral therapists working to change their clients' sexual orientation. Through it all, Rekers wrote that Kirk had a "normal male identity, had normal aspirations for growing up to be married and have a family, and was well-adjusted as a teen-age boy in general."

The truth was far different. His suicide attempt at the age of seventeen was unsuccessful. But twenty years later, he took his life on December 21, 2003. He was 38.

And perhaps the name Rekers rings a bell for some of you.  Rekers' career effectively ended on May 4, 2010, when two reporters at The Miami New Times revealed that he had been photographed at the Miami International Airport while returning from an overseas trip in the company of a handsome, blond twenty-years-old man who Rekers found on Rentboy.com.

Rekers protested that he had hired the escort to help him with his luggage, but his escort himself begged to differ. Rekers’s colleagues began distancing themselves from him, and he eventually resigned from the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a group composed of dissident therapists who believe that homosexuality is a pathology in need of treatment, a scientific fallacy proved wrong by Kirk's experience itself.

Source: http://ken_ashford.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/the-sissy-boy-experiment.html

An amazing investigation on the issue develpoped by an independent blogger: http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/what-are-little-boys-made-of-main

Anderson Cooper's CNN special: http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/07/ac360-special-report-the-sissy-boy-experiment-begins-tonight/

Does anyone know how I can embed videos? There's some I'd like to add.

Honestly I wish the kid had a better ending, it is sad, that he most likely never stood a chance.

Dude, how did you do that? Please embed the 2 youtbue links I posted at the begining of the OP.

Thanks Acevil!

seems a success to me, he stopped being gay, however the experiment had some errors, firstly not helping him adjust in school to have males as a friend without being attracted to them, secondly he should me monitored 24/7 without him knowing so that they can discover when he lies and study the lies he says and what they are about. thirdly is getting is hiring a sexy girl to get him to know how awesome it is to have sex with a girl>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>man.
fourthly monitor him in his job secretly to study the effects the therapy have done to him when he was yound.
fifthly the spanking shouldn't have been so hard it should have been emotional pain instead of physical cause that is much more motivational to change than physical.

I hope that this is meant to be a sarcastic comment, but even in that case I see no humour in it.

What's absolutely clear is that the experiment was a total failure.

Not sure what they are thinking . . . most boys today are sissy boys because lots of girls love extraordinarily feminin guys.

Every heard of Justin Beiber, anyone? Chicks dig that stuff.