PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Premarital Sex, Non-Penetrative Sex, Casual Sex

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6 Jan 2014
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Something is unique about sexuality in that it sets off intense and opposite responses (ex. Sex is conversation, communication not actually related to sex itself!) Everyone can find some sexual practices or situations that elicit intense disgust and others that elicit intense excitement. Masturbation is loving, adulterous, incestuous, same-sex, pederastic, involuntary, so it must be queer . But then mutual masturbation would be conceptually impossible. Stems from aristotle moral education consists in giving people good habits and appropriate emotional responses so we will respond to other people spontaneously in good ways. But this has to exclude the things that are natural but harmful to the self or others. Acts have virtue if they promote thriving in accordance with human nature as rational and social. Aristotle came up with the golden mean. So if you want to know whether something is good sexually speaking, you have to ask if this thing is good in itself (ex.

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