- List of topics on sexual ethics
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This is a list of topics on sexual ethics.
See ethics, sex, and sexual ethics for an overview.
Contents
General Topics in Sexual Ethics
Much of sexual ethics explores the moral obligations, and permissibility, or impermissibility of the activities in question.
Dating and marriage
- Marriage -- how the love described above is or is not related to the permissibility or forbiddenness of sex; what kind of commitment it is that is central to marriage; . . . .
- infidelity
Homosexuality
Main article: Homosexuality- gays and gay sex
- lesbians and lesbian sex
- bisexuals
- transgender individuals and transsexualism
Paraphilias
- Paraphilias
- List of paraphilias
- Fetishism
- Coprophilia
- Exhibitionism
- Necrophilia
- Pedophilia - sexual attraction to children.
- Zoophilia - sexual attraction to animals.
Sex acts
- Various sex methods
Issues
- contraception; varieties of, technologies in
- Unintended pregnancy
- Abortion
- Adoption
- Family
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual abuse -- definitions of, statistics about, strategies for preventing, legal and moral questions about
Age groups
- Child sexuality
- Child pornography
- Child prostitution
- Adolescent sexuality: and all the other topics included on this list
- Sexuality in older age
- elderly people and love
Miscellaneous topics
- Virginity
- Casual sex or "Hooking up"; one night stand
- frequency of sex and cooperation between sexual partners
- libido/sex drive, sexual desire, lust
- sexism
- feminism and sex: has influenced many aspects of (particularly western) cultural views about sex
- gender roles
- Animal sexual behaviour, including masturbation and the majority of other topics on this list: the implications for the obligatoriness, permissibility, or forbiddenness of such behaviors in humans
Statistics on Sex
Often, data about actual human populations is consulted, in order to find out about statistic normalities and deviations in those populations. Such data is often considered useful for making moral judgments about how the average person can be expected, obligated, permitted, and forbidden to act sexually.
Research on such statistics are carried out by the likes of the Alfred Kinsey Institute. Also see such topics as History of Human Sexuality and Sexual Revolution.
Love and Sex
Prominent in dialogue about sexual ethics are definitions of various types of love. These philosophical discussions aim at finding norms for how various types of love ought to correlate (e.g., whether romance must necessarily include friendship), and norms about which, if any, of these types of love ought to be present as a proper context for sex.
Religion and Sex
The interplay of religion and ethics in general is a vast topic for ethical philosophers, religionists and theologians, and people in general when a source for moral guidelines about sex are desired. There are vast differences in religious views on sex, but there also might be a surprising amount of agreement on sexual ethics among various religions. Very many religious views, sects and persuasions could have articles that intersect with virtually every topic listed above. Here are some:
- Religion and Sexuality
- Religious leaders and sex, religious leaders and marriage, chastity
- Homosexuality and religion
- Tantrism
- Catholic teachings on sexual morality
- Religious views on birth control
Books on Sexual Ethics
Primoratz, Igor. Ethics and Sex. New York: Routledge, 1999.
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