PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexual Intercourse, Mary Calderone, Premarital Sex

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 606
• Professor: Christopher Thomson

Document Summary

Phl module 8 plain sex and sexual intercourse should be confined to marriage. Ones view of the morality of premarital intercourse seems to depend on the significance that one gives to the sexual encounter in human life. John wilson makes a case for the view that sexual intercourse does not differ significantly from other human activities because they are influenced by the acquisitive character of contemporary society. The man and woman who engage in sexual intercourse are giving their bodies, the most intimate physical expression of themselves, over to the other. Punzo thinks that it is the acquisitive character of our society that has blinded us to the distinction between the two activities (sex vs tennis) Dr. mary calderone the sexual encounter is a definitive experience, one in which the physical intimacy and merging involves also a merging of the non physical dimensions of the partners.