Chapter 12: Sexual Morality

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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

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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 societys treatment of gays is
  justified because they are extremely immoral.
• Many think that societys treatment of gays is
  justified because they are unnatural.
• Is sexual orientation beyond a persons 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