Exam 15: Sexual Morality

The notion that as long as basic moral standards are respected, any sexual activity engaged in by informed, consenting adults is permissible is known as the ________ view.

The ________ view says that morally permissible sex does not require marriage, but it does entail more than just the informed, freely given consent of the people involved, like an emotional connection.

In a recent public opinion poll, ________ percent of respondents said they believe that it is morally acceptable for a man and woman to have sex before marriage.

Alan Goldman and Igor Primoratz affirm that sexual behavior

Moral questions surface about sexual assaults on college campuses having primarily to do with (1) whether and how justice is served after a sexual assault occurs, and (2) whether the requirement of consent is met in any kind of sexual encounter.

Many human activities are statistically out of the norm (such as skydiving and eating snails), and for that reason they are sometimes deemed unnatural. From this fact it follows that unnatural activities are

Some observers of the sexual assault phenomenon on campuses think that a lot of the blame for it should be laid on campus ________ culture, as today's college students are thought to reject the notion of traditional dates, opting instead to pursue no-strings-attached sexual encounters disconnected from the messiness of romantic commitments.

Many who argue against homosexuality appeal to an idea that is central to natural law theory-mainly that

Many conventionalists favor censoring ________, which is defined as sexually explicit images or text meant to cause sexual excitement or arousal.

The moderate view says that sex is morally acceptable only between one man and one woman who are married to each other by legal authority.

Biologists report that homosexual behavior among nonhuman animals is

Suppose a married couple openly engages in consensual extramarital sexual activity with other people. According to Thomas Mappes's Kantian view of sexuality, the sexual behavior of this couple would be

________ is a term that refers to rape as well as nonpenetrative sexual acts such as attempted rape and unwanted groping of sexual parts.

Consider this argument: Sexual experiences express and affirm moral values, and the right kind of sex expresses and affirms the right kind of values. This view is advocated by conventionalists.

The conventionalist and the liberal take opposing views on the moral permissibility of

Research shows that sex before marriage is almost universal among Americans.

A 2008 study showed that teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence, and they are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do. If we assume that the goal of such pledges is to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, what would a utilitarian determine should be done?

Kissing someone without first obtaining consent is an example of

An unmarried man and woman have frequent sex and engage in activities that most of society would label unconventional, unnatural, and deviant. Their sexual behavior results in the greatest net good for all concerned. A utilitarian would therefore say that their sexual activities are

A utilitarian is likely to sanction many kinds of sexual activity provided that such activities do not use people as a means to an end.