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"In theory" questions are a bit moot if the practice has never worked, and are at least adjacent to "is brainwashing/slavery/... always so bad if the victim thinks its happy with it" from an ethics perspective. Especially if the "in theory" arguments are then used to defend the abusive/broken real world practices, and as an excuse to not fix external causes of distress. I.e. "actually, being gay is ok" as a position of society is way more effective for good outcomes than any attempt at "treatment" ever has been, and the vast majority of arguments along "treatments" are being used to attempt to slow or reverse that development.