Question Could you tell me, what are the main problems in modern ethics of sex?

Accepted:
November 14, 2006

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One thing you can do is to scroll down the list of panelists, and when you come to a dude named "Alan Soble," click on the arrow to the left of his name (not on the name itself, since all hell will break loose if you do that). Almost all the questions answered by this panelist have to do with sex, many with sexual ethics. If you are slightly more ambitious, you might go to his encyclopedia entry at http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/sexualit.htm or, if you are more than slightly ambitious, you might read his essay "The Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Sex," which is in his book The Philosophy of Sex, 4th edition only (Rowman, 2002), or even the entirety of his reader-friendly book, The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction (Paragon House, 1998). Your question admits of such a long answer that it is impossible to answer it here without a panelist's other obligations (moral, political, sexual, occupational) suffering a great deal. And, after all, sex is not all that important. As Marcus Aurelius taught us, way back in the 2nd century, "sexual intercourse [is] internal rubbing accompanied by a spasmodic ejection of mucus" or, in another translation, "coitus . . . is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion" (Meditations, 6.13).

Question Could you tell me, what are the main problems in modern ethics of sex? Accepted:November 14, 2006

Question Could you tell me, what are the main problems in modern ethics of sex?

Accepted:
November 14, 2006