Sex Flashcards
intenationalist view
it says that sexual desire involves the directness of the mind toward an object (an intention), which may be another person
perversion (Nagel)
“there will have to be sexual desires or practices that are considered in some sense unnatural for them to be considered a perversion”- Nagel
sexual desire
desire for contact with another person’s body and for the pleasure which such contact produces
sex
a person’s sex, is often understood as a biological category based on chromosomes and genitalia
gender
gender is a social category, often thought of as a sole that one has by virtue of ones sex (traditionally, man or woman)
gender essentialism
the view that there are traits that typify men and all women (male humans grow up to become men- biological)
intersex
when a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “female” or “male”
gender performance
posits that gender is made up of the acts that mark a person as “man” or “woman” (dress, mannerism, ect)
objectification
involves treating someone as thing, and was a term coined by feminist philosophers to speak primarily about sexual objectification
what is Kant’s view on objectification?
objectivity does not exist as such; it is a characteristic of judgments
what is Nussbaum’s view on objectification?
believes that objectification is morally bad in many contexts, from relatively anonymous to intimate
Autonomy
the capacity to determine one’s own actions through our own reasoning (respect for persons)
Instrumentalization
technology helps us to meet existing goals
sexbot
Neil McArthur argues in “The Case for Sexbots” (2017) that we should give sexbots a chance
turing test pornography
a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human
