PHL243H1 Chapter Notes -Casual Sex, Conditionality
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Casual sex = occurring outside the context of a relationship (442) Casual sex = where both parties don"t want the sex to lead to any commitment (no strings attached) (443) Must each party intend for the act not to lead to commitment or is it enough that just one does? (443) Objectification assumes that humans have a special property that is not being respected in this case (445) Someone can intentionally or unintentionally objectify, without the moral judgment of the objectification changing (445) If humans are nothing but objects to begin with, except for having the morally inflated name of person, then there is nothing wrong with objectification (445) If humans aren"t objects but aren"t better than objects, then there is nothing wrong with objectification (445) Can"t we objectify someone by viewing him as an object without necessarily treating him as an object? (446)