PHIL 334 Chapter Notes -Deborah Rhode, Sexual Objectification
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Marino argues that in some instances, sexual objectification can be morally acceptable, but that this is not as nussbaum has suggested dependent on the context of a relationship. Thus, it is not symmetry, intimacy, and mutuality which render sexual objectification benign. Marino"s idea that consent can only be genuine in the presence of background political and social equality and respect is an attempt to unpack the previously mentioned assumptions of. Nussbaum has suggested that sexual objectification is morally acceptable in a symmetric, intimate, mutual relationship. It is for this reason, nussbaum argues, that the objectification found in pornography and prostitution, for example, are morally problematic. This phenomenon becomes especially evident in instances of sexual abuse or harassment. The ethic of sexual objectification: autonomy and consent, inquiry: an interdisciplinary. Speaking of sex: the denial of gender inequality (cambridge: harvard university press, 1999), page 94.
