Sexual Reorientation in Ideal and Non‐Ideal Theory

Delmas, Candice; Aas, Sean

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“…After doing some research, Kirk finds that SOCE is not currently effective, and in many cases, it is harmful [2,3]. However, Kirk also reads that recent advances in neuroscience mean that in the near future, there may be SOCE that is both effective and safe [3]…”

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Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and VBP

Knox

2020

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice

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According to VBP, to determine whether an individual ought to be able to choose to have safe, effective and truly consensual sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE—also known as conversion therapy), the legitimate values—values compatible with mutual respect—of the individual involved and other affected parties need to be considered. Fulford suggests that homophobic values are incompatible with mutual respect, which suggests that SOCE should not be available. This chapter argues that certain homophobic values may be compatible with mutual respect. Hence, in certain circumstances, VBP could allow safe, effective and truly consensual SOCE to go ahead. This could be considered to be a weakness of VBP. However, VBP should be applauded for considering the values of all involved, including those who make choices for themselves that do not align with the dominant ideology of a society.

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“…the term homophobia to prejudiced personal attitudes (rather than, as the term suggests, fear) [2]. I use homophobia as shorthand for both homophobic and heterosexual values.…”

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Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and VBP

Knox

2020

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice

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“…However, we worry about the effects of practices of reorientation in our non-ideal, heterosexist societies, where sexual minorities suffer significant disadvantages, from work discrimination to physical and sexual violence. As we have argued, however, in current heterosexist conditions, the option to alter one's sexual orientation, particularly the option to ‘convert’ to the majority orientation, risks harming sexual minorities, in four ways 4. First, by hindering the progress of pro-gay policies.…”

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“…They have argued that such therapy could benefit, and thus be justifiably provided to, those who suffer seriously from unwanted sexual desires. Granting this, we have argued in ‘Sexual Re-Orientation in Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory’4 that the widespread use of reorientation therapy, although not intrinsically bad, could have disastrous effects on sexual minorities, potentially dooming queer communities to extinction. There is thus, we argued, good reason to carefully regulate reorientation research in the present, and, should safe and effective reorientation techniques be developed, good reason to adopt policies discouraging their application to adults and forbidding them for minors.…”

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The ethics of sexual reorientation: what should clinicians and researchers do?

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Delmas

2016

J Med Ethics

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Technological measures meant to change sexual orientation are, we have argued elsewhere, deeply alarming, even and indeed especially if they are safe and effective. Here we point out that this in part because they produce a distinctive kind of 'clinical collective action problem', a sort of dilemma for individual clinicians and researchers: a treatment which evidently relieves the suffering of particular patients, but in the process contributes to a practice that substantially worsens the conditions that produce this suffering in the first place. We argue that the role obligations of clinicians to relieve the suffering of their patients put them in a poor position to solve this problem, though they can take measures to avoid complicity in the harms that would result from widespread use of individually safe and effective reorientation biotechnology. But in the end the medical community as a whole still seems obligated to provide these measures, if they become technologically feasible. Medical researchers are in a better position to prevent the harms that would result if reorientation techniques were safe, effective and widely available. We argue that the harms attendant on the development of safe and effective re-orientation techniques give researchers reason to avoid 'applied' research aimed at developing these techniques, and to be careful in the conduct of basic orientation research which might be applied in this way.

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“…But recent work has also explored the use of technology to reconfigure one’s attractions on a more basic level – changing the shape of one’s dating pool. 5 Delmas and Aas ( 2018 ) argue that (in an ideally just society 6 ) “the ability to expand or narrow, and experiment with, the range of one’s basic sexual preferences would enhance freedom of choice and autonomy for everyone.” In this paper, I will focus on technological interventions that would expand one’s romantic attractions. One way of doing this could be along the dimension of personality: by expanding the range of personality profiles that one finds attractive (or non-off-putting).…”

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Expanding the Romantic Circle

Thau

2020

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Our romantic lives are influenced, to a large extent, by our perceptions of physical attractivenessand the societal beauty standards that shape them. But what if we could free our desires from this fixation on looks? Science fiction writer Ted Chiang has explored this possibility in a fascinating short storyand scientific developments might, in the future, move it beyond the realm of fiction. In this paper, I lay out the prudential case for using "attraction-expanding technology," and then consider it from a moral point of view. Using the technology would, in one respect, be morally good: it would benefit those whom prevailing beauty standards marginalize. But attraction-expanding technology also raises a moral concernone that can be cast in non-harm-based and harm-based terms. I argue that the non-harm-based objection should be rejected, because it is incompatible with a moral principle central to queer rights. And the harm-based objection, I argue, is outweighed by the benefits of attraction-expanding technology, and undermined by the prerogative you have over your personal romantic choices. I conclude by considering whether, from the perspective of society, the development of attraction-expanding technology would be desirable.

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Sexual Reorientation in Ideal and Non‐Ideal Theory

Cited by 8 publications

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Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and VBP

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and VBP

The ethics of sexual reorientation: what should clinicians and researchers do?

Expanding the Romantic Circle

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