Exam 13: Sexual Morality

Research shows that sex before marriage is:

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

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

Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are:

The central question in the morality of sex is:

A utilitarian is likely to sanction many kinds of sexual activity on the grounds that:

According to the Roman Catholic version of natural law theory,sexual activity inconsistent with procreation is prohibited.The proscribed behavior includes:

The idea that sex has no special moral significance,that it is morally neutral,is reflected in the ________view of sexuality.

Biologists report that homosexual behavior among nonhuman animals is:

In a recent public opinion poll,________ percent of respondents said they did NOT believe it wrong for a man and woman to have sex before marriage.

According to Alan Goldman,sexual desire is desire for:

Alan Goldman alleges that the goal-directed view of sexuality inevitably falls into inconsistency.He says that the sex-as-procreation theory,for example,condemns oral-genital sex (because it is not a reproductive function)yet fails to denounce ________,which can also be sexual but not reproductive.

Alan Goldman and Igor Primoratz affirm that sexual behavior:

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

Alan Goldman says that the conventional view of sexuality is that sexual behavior must have a morally significant goal,such as procreation.But he argues that:

In school sex education,should discussions of ethics be forbidden? Is ethics irrelevant to contemporary sexual behavior? To this latter question,liberals would answer ________;conventionalists would say ________;and moderates would say ________.

Suppose an unmarried couple,a man and a woman,often have sex but they neither deceive nor coerce each other,and they engage in a broad range of sexual practices.According to Thomas Mappes's Kantian view of sexuality,the sexual behavior of this couple would be:

Michael Levin insists that society has an interest in promoting happiness,and that homosexuality makes for unhappiness.He concludes that society ought to discourage homosexuality by:

The study published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry that is discussed in the text examined the potential effects of pornography on rape.The study found that pornography:

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: