Chapter 12: Sexual Morality

Foundational Introduction - Various

Sexual Practices and Behaviors
What Is Sexual and What is Not?
◦ Embodied persons as the object of sexual
desire
Relevant Factual Matters
◦ Celibacy
◦ Potential disease
◦ The morality of sex
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Sexual Morality and Ethical Theories
◦ The moral theory we hold affects the
moral question about sex
◦ Consequentialist considerations
◦ Nonconsequentialist considerations
◦ Naturalness considerations

Homosexuality
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Reading: Sexual Perversion

◦ Concepts of sexual perversion

◦ Comparison of sexual appetites to other physical

appetites

◦ The object of Sexual attraction

◦ Sexual psychology

◦ Sexual desires
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Reading: Sexual Perversion

◦ Environmental factors

◦ The difficult cases of sadism, masochism, and

homosexuality
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Reading: Prejudice and Homosexuality

◦ Who are the gays?

◦ Many think that society’s treatment of gays is

justified because they are extremely immoral.

◦ Many think that society’s treatment of gays is

justified because they are unnatural.

◦ Is sexual orientation beyond a person’s control?

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Reading: Prejudice and Homosexuality

◦ How would society at large be different if

gays were accepted socially?

◦ Gays desire a permanent lover

◦ Gays have shown an amazing tendency to

nest

◦ Society would be richer for acknowledging

another aspect of human diversity