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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. Chapter 12: continued.
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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
Chapter 12: continued • Sexual Morality and Ethical Theories • The moral theory we hold affects the moral question about sex • Consequentialist considerations • Nonconsequentialist considerations • Naturalness considerations • Homosexuality
Chapter 12: continued • Reading: Sexual Perversion • Concepts of sexual perversion • Comparison of sexual appetites to other physical appetites • The object of Sexual attraction • Sexual psychology • Sexual desires
Chapter 12: continued • Reading: Sexual Perversion • Environmental factors • The difficult cases of sadism, masochism, and homosexuality
Chapter 12: continued • 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?
Chapter 12: continued • 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