For Secular Humanis, Reasonable Uses of Sex

PRINCIPLE OF PERSONALIZED 1. Use sex purely for sake of pleasure

SEXUALITY
Sexuality – A complex aspect for our personality
and self. Our sexuality is defined by sexual
thoughts, desires and longings, erotic fantasies,
turns-ons and experiences.
Personalized Sexuality – 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 often leads to a loss of human dignity
and an inability to pursue the truly fulfilling
goals of human life.
The Gift of Sexuality
 Must be used in keeping with its
intrinsic, invisible, specifically human
teleology.
 Must be a loving, bodily, pleasurable
expression of the complementary,
permanent self-giving of a man and a
woman to each other.
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's 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.

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 expresses by
bodily union.
3. Sex is a social necessity for the
procreation of children and their
education in the family so as to expand
the human community and guarantee is
future beyond the death of individual
members.
4. Sex is a symbolic (sacramental) mystery,
somehow revealing the cosmic order: