[BRIEF NOTE] On Hetracil
Oct. 29th, 2005 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe group blog HomoMojo features an interesting article about Hetracil. This new drug was supposedly a cure for "effeminate" behaviour in men, including homosexual attraction. There is an accompanying blog, purporting to be testimony by a devout Christian who felt that his life was saved by the drug. As it turns out, these two websites are fictional, a writer's thought experiments put down in print. "What would be the ramifications to society if sexual orientation could be manipulated? Would the Culture War turn nuclear?"
It certainly would. Sexual orientation is a major field of contention in the Culture War, as is biotechnology. The merger of the two can be expected to produce a rather interesting explosion, especially once some of the consequences are realized. For instance, the people commenting on Hetracil don't seem to consider the real possibility that if a Hetracil-like drug might exist and make non-heterosexuals straight, it might be possible to make an anti-Hetracil capable of making heterosexuals non-straight. Speaking entirely for myself, so long as this treatment was inexpensive, and safe, and above all reversible, I might be interested in experimenting. I wonder how many other people on the opposite side of the Kinsey scale from me be of like mind.
It certainly would. Sexual orientation is a major field of contention in the Culture War, as is biotechnology. The merger of the two can be expected to produce a rather interesting explosion, especially once some of the consequences are realized. For instance, the people commenting on Hetracil don't seem to consider the real possibility that if a Hetracil-like drug might exist and make non-heterosexuals straight, it might be possible to make an anti-Hetracil capable of making heterosexuals non-straight. Speaking entirely for myself, so long as this treatment was inexpensive, and safe, and above all reversible, I might be interested in experimenting. I wonder how many other people on the opposite side of the Kinsey scale from me be of like mind.
