SEXUAL ETHICS

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SEXUAL ETHICS

• inter-personal relations
• what is love?
• the morality of sexual acts

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Inter-personal relations

• negatively never treat another human as a means
  to an end (an object that we use), but only and
  always as an end in him/herself
• positively the only proper and adequate
  attitude towards other is that of love

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The Dynamics of Love

• PSYCHOLOGICAL
• genuineness of feelings
• sensuality ... excitability
• sentiment ... susceptibility
• problem reductive
• attraction not controlled
• desire subjective urge

• METAPHYSICAL
• virtuous approach
• complacence ... seeing good in other and taking
  delight in it
• benevolence ... choosing and acting to make that
  goodness grow
• goodwill as reciprocal gift

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only RHUF sex is good!

• Relational the sexual act is mutual moral acts
  are not selfish (based on need or pleasure)
• Human the sexual act should involve a free
  decision (not just following instinct or
  sentiment)
• Unitary the sexual act should both express and
  create a bond between two people as a complete
  act, it should reflect and strengthen a
  complete union between the two persons
• Fecund the sexual act, to be what it is, must
  always be open to the transmission of life

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Immoral Sexual Acts (RHUF)

• prostitution / masturbation are not acts of
  human relationality
• rape / child abuse do not involve full
  knowledge voluntary decisions (hence, not fully
  human acts)
• fornication / cohabitation / adultery the
  sexual act is meaning-less because it does not
  reflect or create a complete unity of persons
• contraception / sterilization / abortion are
  actions deliberately contrary to life (not
  fecund)