The General Concept of Sexual Orientation

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ID21507761
AutoresRaja Halwani (0000-0003-3149-056X, Liberal Arts Department School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2026
Data de publicação2026-06-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPacific philosophical quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0279-0750 • E-ISSN: 1468-0114
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/papq.70021
OpenAlexW7166356674
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas38

Philosophical concepts of sexual orientation understand it in terms of sex/gender‐based attraction. I argue that this lacks proper justification by rejecting seven reasons given in its support. I defend the broader “General Concept”: One's sexual orientation consists of those sexual attractions that are stable and important to one's psychosexual identity. I explain and defend these two conditions and then provide six reasons in support of the General Concept. I conclude with a possible world in which our concept of sexual orientation is age based so as to clarify how our current concepts of sexual orientation are products of our contingent history

Psychosexual development · Sexual attraction · Sexual behavior · Sexual life · Sexual orientation · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders