PHIL 237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: On Being, Heterosexuality, Medicalization
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Phil 237 contemporary moral issues: on being orientated (08/06/2016) Brief history of the development of the concept of orientation. Instead: sexual relationships between adult citizens and boys. Is this unnatural? (usually prepubescent; before counted as citizens) Boys were not (ideally) used as mere objects of pleasure. Almost a form of mentorship think back to sexual ethics. Recall: with christianity, procreation became the determining factor of moral sex. This had a huge effect on the marginalization of same sex relationships. Criteria kinda used to be temperance etc. but became procreation because. Christians were so anti-sex that it was too hard to accept and they kinda were obliged to accept sex in at least one context so they picked that. Defined in terms of acts, not (inchoate) desires or identity. And so there was a necessary voluntarism to being a sodomite". You freely choose to do it, are tempted into sin.
