PHL 304 Chapter 4: Chapter 4; Sexuality
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Limitation of sex to marriage is a necessary condition of forming and maintaining stable family units. It is not clear that sexual activity cannot legitimately serve as other important human purposes (love, pleasure) Simultaneous love affairs are not objectionable: allows for sexual freedom in a way that avoids the alleged dehumanizing effects of mere promiscuity. Homosexuality and morality: liberal maintains that homosexual sex is no more immoral in itself than heterosexual sex. Others reject conventional sexuality, but disapprove of homosexuality. Is repulsive and offensive, given over to promiscuity, make streets unsafe for children, a perversion, threatens to undermine social fabric. It is morally wrong for a to use b merely as a means to achieve. A"s ends: coercion and deception, occurent coercion: use of physical force, dispositional coercion: threat of harm, deception and sexual morality, a child is incapable of informed consent. The harms of consensual sex, robin west: feminist perspective.
