This blog is part of an initiative started by the Amherst College Class of 1970 to urge the college to disassociate itself from the homophobic writings of Amherst Prof. Hadley Arkes.
[T]he key abstraction, settling off ripples of self-deception, is that term “sexual orientation.” The term is broad enough to encompass sex with animals, pedophilia, even necrophilia....
{T]he notion of “sexual orientation” [is] quite unstable: Many people shift back and forth across a spectrum that may now include the bisexual, fetishistic, transvestic, zoophiliac (sex with animals).