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Sexual Ethics Quotes
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- 1Alfred Kinsey“The only unnatural sex act is that which you can’t preform”
- 2Dormer“The injunction to ‘love you neighbour as yourself leads them to accept and even celebrate their gay friends in faithful, permanent and stable relationships”
- 3Augustine“Surely such a man would prefer, if possible, to beget children without lust of this kind”
“The babbling impulses of puberty befogged love’s serenity and lust’s darkness”
“In a physical sense, woman has been made for man” - 4St PaulDescribes homosexuality as “unnatural intercourse”
“The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does"
“If you marry you do not sin” - 5Aquinas“The act of sex is wrong when the act of
it’s nature is incompatible with the
purpose of the sex act [procreation]”
Primary Precepts: Procreation, contribute - 6Fletcher“Love is the only intrinsic good”
“Jesus said nothing against birth control, childlessness, homosexuality, masturbation... pre-martial intercourse, sterilization...Whether any form of sex, hetro, homo, or auto is good or evil, depends on whether love is fully served” - 7Desmond Tutu"To treat some people as less worthy on account of their... gender or sexual orientation brings grief to God"
- 8Pope Francais“Form the cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us”
- 9Fredrich Niezche“Christianity gave Eros poison to
drink; he did not die of it, certainly,
but degenerated by vice” - 10Norman Geisler“Erotic love is egoistic. It says ‘My first and last consideration is myself.’ Philic love is mutualistic. It says ‘I will give as long as I receive’. Agapic love, on the other hand, is altruistic, saying ‘I will give, requiring nothing in return”.
- 11Peter SingerThe moral case for acceptance of sexual relationships between consenting adults that do not harm others is ... clear-cut’
- 12Luther"She is worth far more than jewels, her
husband puts his confidence in her and she will never be poor" - 13John Stuart Mill“It is better to be a human
dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”
Higher and low pleasures – sex is a low
pleasure as it is physical - 14KantConcept of only humans having reason - “Sex exposes mankind to the danger of equality with the beasts… a person who sexually desires another person objectifies the other person, both before and during sexual activity and makes the loved person an object of appetite”
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- Flashcards on Sexual Ethics Quotes, created by Grace Gregory on 09/11/2015.
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