Sexual Ethics

Question 1

Define Pythagoreans

Answer 1

Ancient Greek philosophers that believed sex weakened the mind

Question 2

Define cynics

Answer 2

Ancient Greek philosophers that believed there is no point in controlling sexual desires/pleasure

Question 3

Define stoics

Answer 3

Ancient Greek philosophers who believed in the suppression of all emotions

Question 4

Define incest

Answer 4

sexual intercourse between close family members

Question 5

Define pre marital sex

Answer 5

sex before marriage

Question 6

Define Adultery/extra marital sex

Answer 6

Sexual intercourse with someone other than your marriage partner

Question 7

Define porneia

Answer 7

a Greek traditional word that translated ‘divorce’

Question 8

Define patriarchal view of marriage

Answer 8

women become the property of their husband, their main purpose is to bear children

Question 9

Define Christian purposes of marriage

Answer 9

fides (fidelity), proles (procreation), sacramentum (union)

Question 10

Define fornication

Answer 10

having sex outside marriage (old testament : chasing other God’s)

Question 11

Define feminism

Answer 11

A way of thinking that seeks to give women equal opportunities in society

Question 12

Define divorce

Answer 12

legal end of marriage

Question 13

Define celibacy

Answer 13

a state of not having sexual intercourse with another person

Question 14

Define contractual view of marriage

Answer 14

The idea marriage is simply a contract between two people or two people and their families

Question 15

Define procreative aspect of sex

Answer 15

sex is primarily for reproduction

Question 16

Define unitive aspect of sex

Answer 16

sex is a way of strengthening a relationship

Question 17

Define homosexuality

Answer 17

sexual attraction to a person of the same sex

Question 18

Define bisexuality

Answer 18

sexual attraction to both sexes

Question 19

Define heterosexuality

Answer 19

Sexual attraction to the opposite gender

Question 20

Define sex

Answer 20

Biological characteristics that determine whether a person is male or female

Question 21

Define gender

Answer 21

cultural and psychological characteristics that determine whether a person is male or female

Question 22

Define libertarian attitudes to sex

Answer 22

view that any consensual sexual act between adults is morally acceptable

Question 23

Define queer theory

Answer 23

the idea there can be no fixed rules about what is or is not a legitimate sexual relationship. Being queer is the freedom to define oneself according to ones nature

Question 24

Define harm principle

Answer 24

The belief that an act or consequence is morally permissible if no harm is done

Question 25

Define negative autonomy

Answer 25

modern utilitarian view that freedom may, paradoxically, involve a lack of liberty

Question 26

Define humanae vitae

Answer 26

encyclical of Pope Paul VI in 1968 which states that only natural methods of contraception should be used

Question 27

Define abortifacient

Answer 27

any form of contraception that destroys a potentially fertilised egg, e.g. morning after pill