Himor, Rona Mae T.

BSN 1-8
Talacca, Xyra Faith R. February 21, 2019

WRITTEN REPORT IN HEALTH CARE ETHICS

“PRINCIPLE OF PERSONALIZED SEXUALITY”
SEXUALITY

- Sexuality is a complex aspect of our personality and ‘self’. Our sexuality is defined by
sexual thoughts, desires and longings, erotic fantasies, turn-ons and experiences.

PERSONALIZED SEXUALITY

- It is based on the understanding of sexuality as one of the basic traits of the human
person and must be developed in ways consistent with enhancing human dignity.
- This element of human character leads to a loss of human dignity and an inability to
pursue the truly fulfilling goals of human life.

As the image of God, man is created for love. According to Genesis 1-3, it teaches that God
created persons as male and female and blessed their sexuality as a great and good gift.

The gift of sexuality must be used in keeping its intrinsic, indivisible, specifically human
teleology. It must e loving, bodily, pleasurable expression of the complementary, permanent
self-giving of a man and a woman to each other.

Generally recognized values:

1. Sex is a search for sensual pleasure and satisfaction, releasing physical and psychic
tensions
2. Sex is a search for the completion of the human person, through an intimate personal
union of love expressed by bodily union.
3. Sex is a social necessity for procreation of children and their education in the family
so as to expand the human community and guarantee its future beyond the death of
individual members.
4. Sex is a symbolic (sacramental) mystery. Somehow revealing the cosmic order.

For secular humanists, reasonable uses of sex:

1. Use sex purely for the sake of pleasure apart from any relation to love or family
2. Use it to reproduce without any reference to pleasure or love.
3. Expression of unselfish love but without any relation to marriage or family.
2 NORMS OF SEXUAL MORALITY

1. Laws or social attitudes that hinder human freedom to achieve these values in ways
the individual desires are unjust and oppressive.
2. Sexual behavior, at least among consenting adults, is entirely a private matter to be
determined by personal choice, free from any moral guilt.