Questions tagged [sexuality]
According to the IEP, the philosophy of sexuality covers questions regarding procreation, contraception, celibacy, marriage, adultery, casual sex, flirting, prostitution, homosexuality, masturbation, seduction, rape, sexual harassment, sadomasochism, pornography, bestiality, and pedophilia, among others.
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Is it rational for heterosexuals to be proud that they were born heterosexual? [closed]
Throughout my life, I have often heard from individuals in our nation's news organizations, from those in Academia, from local/state/federal government officials, from corporate human resources ...
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Is it philosophically justifiable to consider sexual assault worse than murder?
It appears to me that many people consider sexual assault worse than murder. For example,
It seems generally acceptable to make jokes about murder, as long as their are no particularly graphic ...
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Is the notion that queer identities and sexuality are innate incompatible with the view that genders are socially molded?
Probably the single most important proposition/thesis/tenet regarding queer identities currently held is that
Queer individuals, just as cishet individuals, are simply born the way they are: they do ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"? [closed]
I have a question in the philosophy of sexuality.
Some studies reveal that homosexual men and heterosexual women have symmetrical brains, unlike heterosexual males. Also, an early post-mortem study ...
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Is "genital autonomy" separable from "sexual autonomy"?
Definitions:
"Genital autonomy": the right to decide what happens to one's genitals, even to the point of irreversibly altering them.
"Sexual autonomy": the right to decide to ...
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What is a woman? or Are all social constructions contingent? [closed]
It is difficult these days to avoid becoming familiar with popular disputes surrounding gender. Particularly contentious are questions regarding the ontology of the concepts of woman and man.
On one ...
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Can philosophy say that "love" doesn't exist? [closed]
There must be much for a philosopher to say about such a vivid manifold phenomenon as "love"
There are said to be different forms of love: agape (universal love), philautia (self-love), ...
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Violence vs Sex: Why are we typically more comfortable with graphic violence than explicit sex in gaming, television and film? [closed]
There is an apparent correlation between exposure to violence via the media and gaming, and anxiety, fear, aggression and desensitisation to violence.
My observations may be biased or unusual, but it ...
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Kant's categorical imperative and casual sex. Why does casual sex necessarily involve using someone as a mere means?
I am writing a paper on Kant's principle and test of universalizability. It seems that the test can allow for morally permissible casual sex (i.e., sex outside the Kantian marriage), e.g., consider ...
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Are love and sexual attraction completely unrelated?
The philosophy of sexuality is a more recent development. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says:
Among the many topics explored by the philosophy of sexuality are procreation, contraception, ...
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When consent changes: can "consent" after the fact be valid?
There are many avenues of exploring consent in philosophy. For instance, in the philosophy of sexuality (IEP), consent is tremendously important. So too, in the intersection of morality and bioethics (...
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Did any ancient Greek philosophers condemn fornication?
Did any ancient Greek philosophers condemn fornication (illicit sexual intercourse outside of marriage) or marital infidelity?
Plato was against acts of sodomy, saying they are "contrary to ...
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Simone de Beauvoir on woman's job and sex
I am reading The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, and there are two quotes from page 92 struck me
A truly socialist ethic—one that seeks justice without restraining
liberty, one that imposes ...
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Is artificially generating images of minors in sexual positions unethical? [closed]
I am a machine learner, specialising in GANs and when a friend recently told me that he thinks a litle bit differently about the situation, this got me thinking (and not only about getting new friends)...
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Is Avatar Sexuality Likely to Persist in the Event of a Digitalised 'Humanity'? [closed]
The biological sexual act is vital to current human experience; it is one of our most powerful motivators and vital to the perpetuation of the species.
Humans do not require a present physical partner ...
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