Sexual Ethics

So I did an internet search, as instructed, on an area of applied ethics. I decided to search on sexual ethics and the following stuff are what I found out. ( Please be advised though that what I present here is merely a collection of the parts in my search that I thought would be of interest. If in any way it shows my stand on any of the delicate issues on sexual ethics, please know that I am not against any particular group or person who might have an opposing outlook. If you wish to know more about sexual ethics, you can follow the links I listed on the right side of this page under the ‘What is ethics? Links’ title.) OK. So with that, here I go. ;-)

-Sexual ethics address mostly highly controversial issues of human sexuality that is pretty relevant in our day as in the days before us. And how would it not be relevant when it directly concerns us.

-Sexual ethics discuss the morality of homosexuality. I found out in my search that most stuff in the internet about sexual ethics covers homosexuality issues to a great extent. Here are some quotes that caught my attention:

“The church’s moral judgment is directed toward homosexual acts, which can be freely chosen, and not toward the homosexual condition, which is to a large extent not voluntarily established.”

“What is ostensibly a symbol of love between two men and two women contains nothing that can be truly received, personally and as abiding gift, by the other person. It is a shallow symbol: of sentimentality, of perpetual juvenility and adolescent ambiguity, of not really knowing which sex one is, and of a sense of sexual inadequacy.”

“Male homosexual activity symbolizes at the supernatural level man as in love with one like himself. It signifies secular humanism, for which the only God of man is man himself, refusing to accept the true otherness of God. Lesbianism symbolizes a church turned away from God to the created world.”

“Homosexual activity is simply incapable of expressing marital love ‘which opens those whom it unites to what is other than themselves, to a transcendent goal or good toward which they can commit themselves and their shared lives.’”

-Another issue considered in sexual ethics is the hierarchy of the sexes and I found something that I want to share here:

“The husband’s headship (responsibility and leadership) and the wife’s voluntary submission (total giving and surrender) are important for them to complete sexual fulfillment.”

Other issues considered in sexual ethics are abortion (still illegal to this day, and of course immoral, considered murder even; but we all know that everywhere we go, there are a lot of cases of this going on mostly with young ladies who feel they cannot handle the responsibilities of motherhood just yet); premarital sex (which is not so much talked about in liberated countries as in the more conservative ones like ours); masturbation (probably the least talked-about issue, but is considered nonetheless, especially in Christian sexual ethics); contraception (which today is generally accepted in a lot of communities and the use of which is now considered the norm, not the exception); same-sex marriage (which is a very hot issue these days because of the passing of laws allowing this and also because of celebrities – Elton John for example – being in one; this raises a good deal of eyebrows among many Christian communities of course); gender equality or the hierarchy of the sexes (this is not only discussed in Christian sexual ethics but also in Jewish sexual ethics and of course in Feminist sexual ethics; here, the question of whether the wife must really submit to her husband, is asked); vitro-infertilization; and Gamete Intra-fallopian Tube Transfer (GIFT) among others.