PHIL 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Housekeeping
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It is morally unobjectionable for a consumer to purchase nonsexual services from a supplier in a free exchange on an open market. Okay to buy and sell things on an open market. General: purchasing sexual services is morally on par with purchasing non-sexual services. Needs defense: prostitution is the practice of a consumer purchasing sexual services from a supplier in a free exchange on an open market. Limits scope on what sort of prostitution: therefore, prostitution is morally unobjectionable. Prostitutes degrade themselves and ruin marriage: early religious people: degradation of soul, in eyes of god, experience is dehumanizing, degrading, not having sex because of mutual bond. Ericsson: we have come to accept all sorts of non-marital sex, and that sex is no less likely than prostitution to harm marriages. Men have pool of partners, all non-married women. If p(cid:396)ostitutes feel o(cid:396) a(cid:396)e pe(cid:396)(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed as deg(cid:396)aded that"s o(cid:374)l(cid:455) because of the objection from conventional morality.
