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Chapter 12: Sexual Morality
Foundational Introduction - Various
Sexual Practices and Behaviors
 What Is Sexual and What is Not?
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◦ Embodied persons as the object of sexual
desire
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Relevant Factual Matters
◦ Celibacy
◦ Potential disease
◦ The morality of sex
Chapter 12: continued
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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
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Homosexuality
Chapter 12: continued
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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
Chapter 12: continued
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Reading: Sexual Perversion
◦ Environmental factors
◦ The difficult cases of sadism, masochism, and
homosexuality
Chapter 12: continued
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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?
Chapter 12: continued
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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