The other, Jonathan Arthurs, 16, tells me how becoming a clown was a form of aversion therapy.
The story follows Alex into prison, where he is subjected to violence in the form of aversion therapy.
Clive Francis's Willis, a Lincolnshire doctor who practised a form of aversion therapy, exudes a sardonic authority.
So, as a form of aversion therapy for all those who still feel beetroot is just a little scary, here is an entire three course meal of beetroots.
Having served two years of his sentence, the entirely incorrigible Alex is selected for a crash course of a Reclamation Treatment, a form of aversion therapy.
"There's hardly a gay man of my age who didn't go through some form of aversion therapy," he said.
Because imprisonment is not noticeably a deterrent to crime, the Home Office or Ministry of the Interior introduces a form of aversion therapy guaranteed, in a mere two weeks, to eliminate criminal propensities forever.
'Well, they've always had me as the perfect example of what not to do,' admits Ronnie, 'It's a form of aversion therapy.' Not surprisingly, it's solitude these days that he craves most.
Alex is offered his freedom if he consents to undergo the Ludovico technique, a radical form of aversion therapy that will make Alex feel physically sick when confronted with evil impulses, thus forcing him to be good.
Maybe it's my home-brewed form of aversion therapy.
