SEMI-FINALS BIOETHICS
Differentiation and complementary of
SEXUALITY AND HUMAN
REPRODUCTION
● Sex - assigned at birth
● Gender - used to describe traditional
roles for female and male
Human Sexuality - defined as the totality of
experiences systems, attributes, and
behavior that characterize the sexual
sensation reproductive and intimacy of
Homo Sapiens
- about your sexual feelings, thoughts,
attractions and behaviors towards
other people
- can find other people physically,
sexually or emotionally attractive,
and all those things are a part of
your sexuality
- it is a broad term, which has varied
with historical contexts over time that
became a problem
Sexual Ethics
- involves:
● gender identification
● sexual orientation
● consent
● sexual relations, and procreation
● Historically, the prevailing notions of
what was deemed sexually ethical
have been tied to religious values.
SEXUALITY AND ITS MORAL
EVALUATION
perspective:
1. Anthropological Perspective –
relationship of the person and sex
that mirrors the relationship between
the person and the body.
2.
the sexes is discerned in the biologic
design of the body
3. the body is contained in an essential
uniform structure that exhibit a
series of differentiating factors
imprinted on the entire basic
personality
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
● Chromosomal factors
● Neuroendocrine (gonads)
● Morphology: voice, movement
○ masculinity & femininity
● The person does not merely have
given sex but is truly a complete
man and a complete woman who
are sexually differentiated by design
but whose complementary traits can
harmoniously fulfill co-existence in
the world
● the man and the woman, through
diversified or not identical but the
complementarity and capacity for
reciprocity reveal an equal nature of
personal dignity
● Sexuality has a role in how a person
reveals himself to others
● treating sexuality as a mere object
and thing to be manipulated and
changed will have a profound effect
on the whole person and other to
which he is revealing himself.
Other Perspectives on sexuality
● St. Thomas Aquinas
● views on sexuality have come to be
known as the natural law theory
● the natural law theory, argues that
God designed sex to be between a
man and a woman only
● God designed our sexual organs to
procreate; therefore, any sexual
 activity that can’t lead to procreation
is immoral according to this concept.
● Kant, believed the sex only moral
when a man and a woman
experience it in full devotion and
respect for one another
● kant believe marriage is the only real
hope for sex to be accompanied by
real love and respect
● being married also gives legitimacy
to sexual relations within the
marriage
● in short, sex outside marriage is
immoral or sin. According to Kant.
PHENOMENOLOGY OF SEXUAL LIFE
● in animal species, sexual impulse
acts as strong irrational instinct
● Human beings, sexual impulse has
the natural tendency to be
transformed into love
● A solid basis for love between
persons then, is the benevolence of
love
FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY, AND SEX
● should be expressed interpersonal
relationship
● not mere psychological mechanism
or cultural construct
● all sexual life is accompanied with
responsibilty
● responsibility also means accepting
sexuality for what it is and what it
involves in terms of meaning and
consequences
SEMI-FINALS BIOETHICS
SEXUALITY AND HUMAN
REPRODUCTION
● Sex - assigned at birth
● Gender - used to describe traditional
roles for female and male
SEXUAL REVOLUTION
● increasing teen age premarital sex
said to be the caused of
contraceptives
● Libertinism - posits that sexuality is
one of the fundamental instincts that
govern life hence it must be
exempted from moral control
● There is one sexuality oriented to
pleasure and another sexuality
oriented to procreation
● Post-Freudian interpretation -
satisfy every impulse since sexuality
is the fundamental driving force and
all of its expression (pansexualism)
● failing to do so or expressing thos
impulses will lead to neuroses
● Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir
- posits that a woman
MARRIAGE
● beginning of the family and life-long
commitment