PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Non-Penetrative Sex, Cunnilingus, Masturbation
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Something unique about sexuality: it sets off intense and diametrically opposite responses. Everyone can find some sexual practices or situations that elicit intense disgust, and others that elicit intense excitement: anything some crave, someone finds disgusting; anything some abhor , some craves. Masturbation is loving, adulterous, incestuous, same-sex, pederastic, involuntary, and rape-ish and so it must be queer : keep quiet about masturbation. Each of his 6 attempts is defeated by counter examples. Soble"s discussion is a good illustration of the method of analytic philosophy. Soble definition too narrow because it doesn"t account for that masturbation is sex. Distinguishing masturbation from the paradigm case of sex. Since the penis or clitoris need not be involved, it might be defined as the act in which. The person who by touching sexually sensitive areas of the body casually produces the sensation is the same person who experiences the sensations. : mutual masturbation is impossible.
