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"Sexual Ethics: An Anthology is an accessible and provocative collection of readings on conceptual, ethical, and policy issues about sex. Designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in exploring one of the major moral topics of our times, this collection avoids jargon and obscurity in favor of clear, straightforward discussion, covering a wide array of cases from all sides. It is intended to provoke thought, generate discussion, and analytically clarify the definitions, arguments, assumptions, and options of our personal, public, and political treatment of sex"--

Violence against women remains a pressing and unresolved global issue which has proved resistant to over 30 years of feminist activism around prevention. This article argues that many prevention strategies have been shaped by unarticulated discourses about sexuality which have focused primarily on women managing the risk of the unethical behaviour of men. An alternative conception of sexual ethics is proposed based on Foucault's work on ethics, sexuality, governmentality and power as productive and in a constant state of negotiation. I argue that all sexual encounters, regardless of the gender of the people involved, invites the possibility of ethical sexual behaviour. Given the failure of prevention strategies in eradicating intimate sexual violence to date, there is a pressing need to consider how desire, acts and pleasure can be understood from an ethical perspective to create a greater possibility of realizing an erotics of consent. This would result in alternative ways of shaping violence prevention strategies and provide new directions for law, education and negotiating intimate sexual relationships of women and men of diverse sexualities.

This paper explores a research and education project seeking positive ways to engage young men in respectful and ethical negotiation within sexual relationships. The experiences of young men aged 16–25 years of age are explored who took part in the Sex & Ethics Violence Prevention Program which was developed in 2006 and continues to be run in several Australian states and in New Zealand. The Program was designed to assist both young women and men to develop enhanced ethical sexual subjectivity and in the process help them to explore diverse gender possibilities in their intimate relationships. This study is located within the international field of violence prevention education. It considers how the young men who took part in this Program between 2009–2011 responded to the opportunity to reflect on their practices within the context of casual and ongoing sexual relationships. The implications of the study for our understandings of masculinities and gender are explored and how sexual ethics may provide a useful approach to assist young people as they navigate their sexual lives.

1. Introduction: Sex, Ethics, and Philosophy -- 2. The Metaphysical Foundations of Sexual Morality -- 3. The Ethics of Sexual Pleasure -- 4. The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object -- 5. Kant and Arendt on the Challenges of Good Sex and the Temptations of Bad Sex -- 6. Sexual Jealousy and Sexual Infidelity -- 7. Sexual Use, Sexual Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences: A Social Approach to Sexual Objectification -- 8. Masturbation and the Problem of Irrational and Immoral Sexual Activity -- 9. Virgin vs. Chad: On Enforced Monogamy as a Solution to the Incel Problem -- 10. The Ethics of Cohabitation -- 11. Why Is Sexual Assault Special?: Transactional Sex and Sacred Intuitions -- 12. Deception and Sexual Harassment -- 13. Homosexuality, Bestiality, and Necrophilia -- 14. The Immorality of Premarital Sexual Abstinence -- 15. Sexual Autonomy and Sexual Consent -- 16. Enthusiastic Consent to Sex -- 17. On the Sufficiency of Sexual Consent -- 18. Bad Sex and Consent -- 19. "Respect Women": Thinking Beyond Consent After #MeToo -- 20. Should Statutory Rape be a Crime? -- 21. Sexual Consent, Dementia, and Well-Being -- 22. Exploitation and Sexual Consent -- 23. A Solution to the Problem of Rape by Fraud -- 24. Sexual Racism -- 25. Racialized Sexual Discrimination: A Moral Right or Morally Wrong? -- 26. Sexual Ableism: Is Sex Work the Best Solution? -- 27. Sexual Exclusion -- 28. Sex and Technology: From Tinder to Robot Sex -- 29. College Party Hook Ups: Consent, Apps, and Double Standards -- 30. #MeToo and the Ethics of Doxing Sexual Transgressors -- 31. Naughty Fantasies (With a New Postscript Including Sex Robots).

In this essay I follow one argument strand from Linda Singer's Erotic Welfare. How can we have a forward-looking and affirmative ideal of sexual freedom when the AIDS panic has altered the sexual landscape and instigated new justifications for oppressive sexual disciplines? How can we be sexual subjects when processes of commodification and disciplinary practices have constrained sexual expression while proliferating sexual fetishes? These are some of the questions this book formulates, without answering.

The body and bodily experience make little appearance in analytic moral philosophy. This is true even of analytic sexual ethics—the one area of ethical inquiry we might have expected to give a starring role to bodily experience. I take a small step toward remedying that by identifying one way in which the bodily experience of sex is ethically significant: some of the physical actions of sex have a default expressive significance, conveying trust, affection, care, sensitivity, enjoyment, and pleasure. When people having sex don't in fact have these feelings, the sex can be misleading, even if they've antecedently communicated that they don't have these feelings. This account of how sex can mislead is inspired by a perhaps surprising source, Catholic sexual morality. Analytic sexual ethicists could benefit from emulating Catholic sexual morality's attentiveness to the bodily nature of sex and its ethical significance.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface to English Edition -- Preface -- Preliminary Observations -- Sexual Education -- PART I. GENERAL BORDERLAND PROBLEMS OF THE EROTIC LIFE -- Chapter I. Hunger and Love -- Chapter II. Nature and Limits of Modesty -- PART II. BORDERLAND PROBLEMS OF THE EXTRACONJUGAL EROTIC LIFE -- Chapter I. Comparative Sexual Psychology in Various Countries -- Chapter II. Intermediate Stages of Sexual Morality in Woman -- Chapter III. The Prostitute as the "Old Maid" of the Proletariat -- PART III. PRE-CONJUGAL BORDERLAND PROBLEMS -- Chapter I. Dualism of Woman in Primary Sexual Love -- Chapter II. Value and Limits of Chastity -- Chapter III. Borderland Problems of Betrothal -- PART IV. BORDERLAND PROBLEMS OF THE CONJUGAL SEXUAL LIFE -- Chapter I. Outward Manifestations of the Subjection of Woman in Marriage -- Chapter II. The Physical Basis of Love The Monogamous Taming of Polygamous Tendencies -- Chapter III. Conjugal Procreation: its Rights and its Duties -- Chapter IV. Certain Shoals in the Waters of Married Life Intellectual Cultivation in Woman and its Limits -- Appendix to Chapter II, Part III -- Index

The emerging sexual ethics that characterise the contemporary society, remains new to Africa, a phase of the erosion of African ethos, and a negation of the sacredness and classical norms of sex, which deserves to be addressed by all and sundry. It is a contemporary trend brought to fore by homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals, among which are the radical feminists, who indoctrinate many with the practice and continuously push very hard for legalisation and acceptance by all cultures and religions. But interestingly, many cultures and religions still remain opposed to the practice and its evolved ethics since they abuse human sexuality and African ethos. Clearly, adherents and feminists of the ill-practices with the new sex ethics have lost touch with moral sanity and the metaphysical Being, God. Only worthwhile cultural traits need be borrowed into and imbibed by other cultures in contact. The rising ugly development can best be addressed through strong opposing legislations, the sustenance of cultural and moral norms and values (ethics) and attitudinal change. Keywords: Emerging, Sexuality, Sexual ethics, Erosion, African ethosThe emerging sexual ethics that characterise the contemporary society, remains new to Africa, a phase of the erosion of African ethos, and a negation of the sacredness and classical norms of sex, which deserves to be addressed by all and sundry. It is a contemporary trend brought to fore by homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals, among which are the radical feminists, who indoctrinate many with the practice and continuously push very hard for legalisation and acceptance by all cultures and religions. But interestingly, many cultures and religions still remain opposed to the practice and its evolved ethics since they abuse human sexuality and African ethos. Clearly, adherents and feminists of the ill-practices with the new sex ethics have lost touch with moral sanity and the metaphysical Being, God. Only worthwhile cultural traits need be borrowed into and imbibed by other cultures in ...