Sexual Ethics
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- Created on: 08-02-17 19:33
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- Sexual Ethics
- Sex in the old testament
- Ancient Greek sexual ethics clash with today's modern ideas. Especially regarding sex with an adult and adolescent
- Mans power was seen through the amount of property he owned and how many offspring he has.
- Teaching of genesis was that God created Adam and Eve, and their purpose was to have sex and reproduce
- Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve had sex because it was good in itself.
- God says 1)pain in childbirth - consequence of sex 2)sexual desire - lust and obsession 3)husband ruling over wife - sexual dominance
- After the fall, sex cannot be good in itself.
- Purely for reproduction.
- Woman must be virgin before she marries.
- Some parts where sex can be inappropriate. Lot and his daughters.
- New Testament teaching on sex
- Teaching of Jesus says very little about sexual ethics.
- Jewish law says divorce can only be done by the male and adulterous woman should be taken away from the city.
- It can be read that Jesus agrees with divorce in some cases.
- Main teaching of Jesus was to treat people equally
- Jesus - "love god with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself"
- Apostle Paul thinks the second coming of Jesus was sooner or later, so thinks we should focus on spiritual things rather than sex.
- Paul says everyone should say celibate.
- Paul's teachings are very sexist.
- Paul says everyone should say celibate.
- Christian teachings on sex
- Early Church
- Celibacy so you're closer with God
- St Augustine saw sex as sin
- Thomas Aquinas agreed sex was for reproduction, but understood the enjoyment.
- Roman Catholic
- Followed closely with Natural law
- List of things that are wrong: 1)Premarital sex 2)sex for pleasure 3)Gay 4)Abortion 5)masterbation
- 3 purposes of marriage 1)faithfulness 2)reproduction 3)becoming once flesh
- Liberal Protestantt
- Doesn't take bible literally.
- Looks at how culture changes.
- Ideas of sex has recently changed to love being its purpose
- Evangelical Protestantism
- Has similarities between Roman Catholic and Liberal Protestant
- They accept that divorce is sometimes 'necessary evil' such as domestic abuse and adultery
- sex is for marriage
- Early Church
- Libertarian attitudes to sex and relationships
- 21st Century - "if it feels good, then do it!"
- if consent is given then it is morally acceptable
- Contractarian view
- most important principle's are the ability to be autonomous and to be free to choose
- Autonomous: not being controlled by others or outside source
- **** is not acceptable as there is no consent given.
- John Stewart Mills created the harm principle - purpose of law should be to stop people from harming others
- evaluation of Libertarian approach
- deals with things such as homosexualityetc. They should practice what they wish to do.
- they are morally responsible for their own actions. they are aware of the rightness and the wrongness
- Criticism is that the power in a relationship is now always balanced.
- Feminism and sexual ethics
- feminism would disagree with both traditional religious approaches and libertarian ideas
- believe male dominance has cased woman to be mistreated
- the ideas of woman being a mans property is completely wrong and allows woman to be seen as a mans possession.
- Homosexuality
- Until late 1960s in the UK homosexuality was seen as a criminal offence punishable by time in prison.
- Christianity and homosexuality
- Most Christian teachings are against homosexual acts
- "you shall not lie with a man as with a woman: that is an abomination"
- Christian teaching tries to cure people of this 'disorder'
- Protestant approaches - it is wrong and sinful. But those who are gay are still 'individuals of the sacred worth'
- Roman Catholic approaches - nothing wrong with having feelings for same sex, but acting upon it is wrong.
- Liberal approach - it is not a moral issue. If it is a good relationship then it should be rated as highly as a heterosexual one.
- Evaluation of Christian approaches to homosexual
- if the bible is taken literally, then homosexuality is completely wrong.
- if this is going to be taken literally, then will other parts of the bible too? such as adulterers will be stoned.
- Christian teachings say 'love thy neighbor as yourself' are followed, then the idea of homosexuality needs to be changed.
- if the bible is taken literally, then homosexuality is completely wrong.
- Premarital sex
- Extramarital sex
- This means adultery
- Biblical teachings say adultery is wrong.
- "thou shall not commit adultery"
- seen as bad in most societies.
- Traditional Christian perspective
- Sex is for married couples only
- Pauls teaching does not mention the same sex relationship, only says male and female.
- Joy from sex is found in a married couple.
- Liberal Christian perspective
- encourages marriage before sex
- Secular approaches
- sees no reason why sex should be saved for marriage.
- marriage is no longer required for a number of reasons.
- Woman don't need men for financial security. no stigma around kids of parents who aren't married.
- Extramarital sex
- Sex in the old testament
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