Sexual Ethics

Question 1

St Augustine on sex

Answer 1

immoral unless for reproduction

Question 2

Pythagoras on sex

Answer 2

obstain and live a contemplative life

Question 3

St paul on sex

Answer 3

celibacy BUT believed jesus would return in his lifetime and so was extremely orally conservative in his behavior. teachings must be seen within ccontext

Question 4

Aristotle on sex

Answer 4

belived women were incubators

Question 5

modern opinion on sex

Answer 5

gives potential for new life which is a gift from god, no contraception

Question 6

when was rape in a marriage made illegal

Answer 6

1991

Question 7

when was consent given a definition

Answer 7

2003

Question 8

libertarian veiw on prostitution

Answer 8

adults should be able to spend their money on whatever they want
-decriminalise it so gangs are weakened and women get advice, medical care, health checks e.g. New Zealand

Question 9

paternalist view on prostitution

Answer 9

people need to be prevented from making choices that will harm or degrade themselves

• VE- being a good person amounts to more than just making harmless choices. people build up virtuos habits.
• criminalise clients and consumers

Question 10

for prostitution

Answer 10

openesss is healthy

• provides outlet for men
• career choice
• inevitable

Question 11

against prostitution

Answer 11

• degrading
• sex crimes
• commidity

Question 12

love

Answer 12

eros
phillia
agape
storge

Question 13

Aquinas on sex

Answer 13

promiscuous sex is irrational and immoral
-sex outside marriage creates fatherless children and is socially divisive: natural moral law emphasises the importance of living in an orderly socirty as well as producing children.

Question 14

Jack Dominion

Answer 14

• a new approach is needed
• sex outside marriage is ok in a LT relationship - it can bring reconciliation and healing
• and homosexuality doesnt destroy any ideals

Question 15

sex outside marriage quote

Answer 15

“flee from sexual immorality. all other sins a man committs are outside his own body, but he who sins sexually sins against his body. do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit? whom is in you, whom you have received from god”

Question 16

quote on divorce

Answer 16

‘anyone who divorces his wife and marries another committs adultery”
“what god has put tigether let no man separate”

Question 17

Pope F 2015

Answer 17

1] “children have the right to grow up in a family with a father and mother capable of creating a suitable environment”
2] “ the complimentarity of man and woman s the root of marriage and family”

Question 18

Gay Examples

Answer 18

• Jeffery John stepped down because he was celibate gay

- Gene Robinson gay bishop

Question 19

CofE rules on gay

Answer 19

2013 could become bishops if celibate

Question 20

bible quote for gay

Answer 20

“god created man in his image: male and female he created them. god blessed them and said “be fruitful and increase in number””

Question 21

Tony Blair

Answer 21

as much as i dislike the idea of abortion, you should not crimalise a woman, who in a difficult circumstance, makes that choice

Question 22

Margaret Sanger

Answer 22

no woman can call herself free who does not have control over her own body

Question 23

The joy of love 2016

Answer 23

• SEX: there should be more sex education- should not just be on protection and safe sex, but also mutual commitment and values.
• DIVORCE: bishops should allow divorced to be given communion- ‘they should be encouraged to participate in the community’
• CONTRACEPTION: ‘methods must be based in the laws of nature’ [no change]
• HOMOSEXUALITY: ‘there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar, or even remotely analogous to Gods plan for marriage and family’

Question 24

Quote on children

Answer 24

‘a child is not owed, but a gift’

Question 25

Thatcher

Answer 25

1) more people enter marriage from cohabitation than single state
2) cohabiters are as likely to go back into a single state than marriage
3) sex separated from marriage in 1960
4) cohabitation is an alternative to marriage

Question 26

Crook

Answer 26

Too simplistic

1) changing status of women
2) contraception and abortion
3) social interaction and deeper understanding