Sexual Ethics Teaching Resources

Category: Sexual Ethics

  • Article Changing ideas of Female Sexuality

    Here is an article offering a synopsis of Anna Clark’s book Female Sexuality published by Routledge (2005) https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203969120.ch3 Female sexuality is one of the most difficult subjects in women’s history, because female sexual desire has been both invisible and all too visible. Instances of transgressive female sexuality, such as the prostitute, the lesbian, or the…

  • Article: Judith Butler – Bodies that matter

    Judith Butler (1956-  ) has written extensively on sex and gender, for example, in her book Bodies that Matter (1993). JUDITH BUTLER: On Gender and Sex JUDITH BUTLER questions the belief that certain male/female behaviours are natural, illustrating the ways that our learned performance of gendered behaviour (what we commonly associate with femininity and masculinity)…

  • Article: the issues and the challenge around homosexuality

    Follow this link trhough for an in depth tour of all the moral and practical issues surrounding homosexuality and same sex relations. http://www.religioustolerance.org/homosexu.htm

  • Article Sex in the Torah

    Jewish Attitudes Towards Sexuality source – kosher sex In Jewish law, sex is not considered shameful, sinful or obscene. Sex is not thought of as a necessary evil for the sole purpose of procreation. Although sexual desire comes from the yetzer ra (the evil impulse), it is no more evil than hunger or thirst, which also come from…

  • Advanced Article: Bentham on sexual ethics

    For Bentham’s views on a number of issues including prostitution, short term marriages and adultery click below: Jeremy Bentham on Love and Marriage: A Utilitarian Proposal for Short-Term Marriage

  • Workbook: Sexual Ethics

    Workbook sexual ethics from Peped

  • CASE STUDY Gay couples and Christian B & Bs

    Case study homosexuality from Peped

  • Weblinks – games and reading

    Games For sicx games on sex and relationships (beat the examiner, throw the teacher, penalty shoot out, hoop shoot, walk the plank, en garde) go to: http://www.rsrevision.com/games/alevel/relationships.htm Exercise – fill in the diagram on conscience and sex (Aquinas – monogamy, Newman – homosexual sex, Butler – masturbation, Piaget – civil partnerships, Freud – consent, St…

  • Summary: GRID: Sexual ethics

        Sexual Ethics   Roman Catholic Natural Law Church of England More situational Kant Apply categorical imperative (3 versions) Utilitarian Distinguish between Act and Rule Contraception Anything that breaks intrinsic relationship between procreation and sex is wrong- natural law, primary precept is procreation, secondary precept no contraception. 1920s & 1930s , attitudes change– contraception…