BIOETHICS LECTURE 3 Flashcards
encompasses nearly every aspect of our being, from attitudes and values, to feelings and experiences. It is influenced by the individual, family, culture, religion/spirituality, laws, professions, institutions, science, and politics.
Sexuality
Our level of awareness, acceptance, and enjoyment of our own and others’ bodies
Sensuality
Our ability to express and have a need for closeness with another person
Intimacy
Our biological sex—the anatomical parts, hormones, and chromosomes we have at birth
Sexual Identity
Our attitudes and behaviors toward our health and the consequences of sexual activity.
Sexual Health & Reproduction
Our use of power and influence to manipulate or control others with our sexuality.
Sexualization
how we feel about and identify as our gender (masculine, feminine, gender non-conforming)
Gender identity
who we are sexually attracted to (straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual)
Sexual orientation
it makes us realize the need for some measure of fulfillment that only the other can give.
Sexual
One has to be free from self-centeredness by opening one to the other person.
Morality of Human Sexuality
A happiness that is sought for ourselve alone can never be found. For a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
Morality of Human Sexuality
making someone happy
morality of human sexuality
human sexuality is equal to
commitment
commitment consists of three, What are they
- care
- concern
- responsibility
Safeguarding the other’s value
Commitment
Responsibility to and for one another
commitment
Human sex is ____ if and when it destroys a person’s honor, and becomes a degradation of the other
dehumanizing
human sexuality is sacred and god-given gift
natural law
act as to treat human as always, an end, never as means
Kant
● Justice is fairness.
● Never take advantage of persons for own personal gains and satisfaction
Rawls
Prostitution out of necessity and survival may be legitimate
Fletcher
the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman.
marriage
Marriage is both a ___ and a ____
because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation.
- natural institution
- sacred union
___, ____, and ___ are essential to marriage because they foster and protect the two equal purposes of marriage
Permanency, exclusivity, and faithfulness
The family arises from marriage. Parents, children, and family members form what is called a ___ or church of the
home.
domestic church
What are the fundamentals of marriage?
LoCoSeFiHuPaFoTiHoTruCoSe
★ Love & commitment
★ Sexual Fidelity
★ Humility
★ Patience & forgiveness
★ Time
★ Honesty & Trust
★ Communication
★ Selflessness
What are the Moral Dilemmas?
❖ Sex outside marriage
❖ Homosexuality
❖ Contraception
❖ Artificial Reproduction
● ICI (Intracervical Insemination)
● IUI (Intrauterine Insemination)
❖ In vitro fertilization
❖ Surrogate Motherhood
❖ Abortion
❖ Rape
a procedure to end a pregnancy.
abortion
unlawful sexual activity, most often involving sexual intercourse, against the will of the victim through force or the threat of force or with an individual who is incapable of giving legal consent because of minor status, mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception.
Rape
“the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
Rape
refers to the legal proscription against having sexual intercourse with a child or any other person presumed to lack comprehension of the physical and other consequences of the act.
statutory rape
refer to any kind of sexual assault committed against a person above the age of consent by an individual in a position of authority
statutory rape
At what age an individual can give consent to sexual intercourse
between 14 to 18 years old
12 years old in some countries
Sexual intercourse with a person below the age of consent is termed
statutory rape
