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