https://medium.com/@rhys/re-orientation-fb131ba7bd9b
created by sstiel on 26/11/2024 at 15:00 UTC
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Comment by ClockOfTheLongNow at 26/11/2024 at 19:27 UTC
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This is going nowhere in a hurry so we're locking this one down.
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Comment by knotse at 26/11/2024 at 18:23 UTC
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A very interesting article, and one written along lines which I have traversed; thanks for posting.
I have at various times decried the bizarre attempts in my country to outlaw 'conversion therapy', not as a specific therapeutic, but as an end goal for any kind of treatment; this is both wretchedly illiberal and absurdly unjustifiable (if it were done for reasons of essentialism, it would also have prohibited sex-change operations).
But there is an aspect of the line of thought here which I would query: why the obsession with lust? The most intimate, meaningful friendships and even loves (see Lewis' *Four Loves*) I have experienced, and that I have observed in others, were not a matter of - would even have been sullied by - the urge for 'a bloody good rogering'!
But perhaps there could be an advantage in removing such intrusive urges where they are unwanted and serve to interfere with an otherwise promising relationship.
Comment by sstiel at 26/11/2024 at 15:01 UTC
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An argument that allowing people to change sexual orientation would lead to a better society and not necessarily just to heterosexual. Could we see this in our lives?