Sexual Ethics

Question 1

Richard Holloway

Answer 1

‘Human sexuality is like a runaway car’

Question 2

NT: Jesus

Answer 2

‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.’

Question 3

NT: St Paul

Answer 3

‘If they cannot resist themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!’

‘The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord… but the unmarried man is anxious about worldly affairs.’

Question 4

Ephesians 5:31

Answer 4

‘Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.’ - Christ is a part of our body, cannot misuse it for sex. ‘temple’.

Question 5

Augustin

Answer 5

Sex in order to porcreate, married couple should ‘descend with a sense of sadness’ to their ‘regrettable task.’

Man who has sex with his wife without the intension of procreation is effectively committing adultery.

To seek pleasure is a sin, to experience it is sinless.

Sex = necessary evil to continue the human race

Sexual desires are a constant restraint of men’s rebellion against God - our original sin

Cannot control our sexual desires

Question 6

Aquinas - NML

Answer 6

Telos to procreate, any other use is intrinsically wrong
Sex = wrong when: 1. not for pro. (masterb, beasti, homo, oral) 2. conflicts with right reason with another party (incest, pedo, adultery)

• dominican 13th century theologian
• God’s Divine Law, Deontological
  1. preserve life
  2. live in an ordered society
  3. procreate
  4. worship god
  5. learn
• apparent and real good
• interior and exterior act
• doctrine of double effect