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XIV - Sexual orientation: what is it?
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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:14 authored by Kathleen StockI defend an account of sexual orientation, understood as a reflexive disposition to be sexually attracted to people of a particular biological Sex or Sexes. An orientation is identified in terms of two aspects: the Sex of the subject who has the disposition, and whether that Sex is the same as, or different to, the Sex to which the subject is disposed to be attracted. I explore this account in some detail and defend it from several challenges. In doing so, I provide a theoretical framework that justifies our continued reference to Sex-directed sexual orientation as an important means of classifying human subjects.
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian SocietyISSN
1467-9264Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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3Volume
119Page range
295-319Department affiliated with
- Philosophy Publications
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2019-06-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
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