THE MORALITY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY

(THE CONTINUATION)

Responsibility to and for One Another 16.13

Responsibility (sexual love) -the individuals concerned are eager and pleased every time they hear a new born baby cry -the reaction should be joy and delight and not abortion, infanticide, or wrapping a new born baby with newspapers and dumping it inside the trash can; nor desertion or abandonment, which is utter cowardice on the part of the man

Sexual Responsibility - always points to personhood (pagkatao) - implies justice

Respect - implies the absence of exploitation (sexploitation) and subjugation - exists only on the basis of freedom

Sexual Responsibility + Respect= Humane

Humanizing and Dehumanizing

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Human Sexuality may be either:

Humanizing enables me to realize myself as much as it brings the other fulfillment both of us attain self-realization and unitive self-fulfillment

The awareness of no longer being alone is perhaps the most eloquent witness to loves creativity. Love creates a we, a togetherness. The we of love can be expressed only if it can be expressed at all in terms of fullness, fulfillment, and

Dehumanizing it destroys a persons honor and becomes a degradation of the other; consists of using the other as a means for my own end ~ Ginagamit o pinagpaparausan ko lamang siya para sa sarili kong kasiyahan. the other is reified or objectified; the other loses personhood and becomes an it and ceases to be an I.

Types of Sexual Deviation

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Sexual Deviation - generally, it refers to any form of sexual activity which a given social group regards as unnatural and abnormal - (sexologists) equated with perversion, anomaly, abnormality, aberration by way of sex - depend/s largely on social norms or culturally approved standards; and these norms and standards differ enormously from one community to another - largely caused by environmental or psychological factors in the early and later life of an individual

Types of Sexual Deviation

Homosexuality Transvestism Transsexualism Exhibitionism Sadism Masochism Necrophilia Necrosadism Sex Murder Fetishism Pedophilia Sexual attachment to children Gerontophilia Mixoscopia/Voyeurism Pygmalionism Bestiality

Homosexuality (Homoerotism)
- refers to sexual relations between individuals of the same sex - (older authorities) homosexuality is constitutionally rooted, that homosexuals are born and not conditioned, and that hormonal and/or genetic imbalances cause sexual deviations; nature determines homosexuality - (modern psychologists, et al) homosexuality and other sex deviations are the result of psychological or environmental influences

Lesbianism (after lesbos) - Homosexuality among women

Pederasty (homosexual & intercourse) - Homosexuality among men

Transvestism

Transvestism or Transvestitism is also called crossdressing, or eonism. It means the obsessivecompulsive need of an individual, almost always male, to wear clothes worn by the opposite sex. Homosexuality is the main or primary root of transvestism.

Transsexualism (By Harry Benjamin)

Transsexualism is a kind of sexual deviation in which an individual (either male or female) has an obsessive-compulsive desire to belong to the opposite sex. A transsexual does not only want to dress in the clothing of the other sex but also wish to have his/her sex organ surgically changed.

Exhibitionism
This refers to an individuals obsessivecompulsive inclination to obtain sexual gratification by public exposure of his/her body organs. An exhibitionist derives distinct satisfaction from exhibiting his/her nude body and genitals especially to individuals with whom he/she would

Sadism
This is a form of sexual abnormality in which sexual gratification depends largely on the infliction of pain upon others (i.e. sex partners). Sadists always requires intense sadistic or violent behavior for arousal and satisfaction, particularly with unwilling sex partners, one is indeed acting in a neurotic or deviated

Masochism (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

This is a type of sexual aberration in which sexual gratification depends largely on undergoing physical pain or humiliation. Clinical Psychiatrists have noted that a masochist and a sadist usually tend to go together, with the sadistic individual also being masochistic and vice versa.

In extreme cases, a masochist needs to be bitten and beaten, slapped and spanked, boxed and kicked, pinched and clawed, so as to

Necrophilia
From the Greek word nekros corpse and philos love, necrophilia means love of corpses or cadavers. It is an abnormal, erotic attarction to corpses. A necrophile or necrophilic, usually male, is aroused by the sight of corpse and tries to have sex relations with it.

Necrosadis m
This is a sexual abnormality in which an individual experiences sexual stimulation and orgasm by mutilating corpses. A necrosadist enjoys cutting up cadavers in order to arouse himself sexually to orgasm. This is a rare form of sex behavior, statistically speaking.

Sex Murder
In this type of deviation, the sex murderer kills his partner solely in order to enhance his own arousal and sexual satisfaction. Rapists or sex offenders who kill their victims for fear of detection. This is another state of extreme amentia or psychosis.

Fetishism
An individual becomes sexually aroused by the mere sight of a womans underwear (bra or panty), hair, shoe, a stocking, a blouse, girdle, etc. In this context, a fetish is any object, like a shoe or womans breast, that is sexually stimulating to certain persons

Pedophilia
An abnormal condition in which an adult is obsessivelycompulsively attracted to prepubescent youths. It has been originally called pederasty in view of the anal-genital relations resorted to by the pedophile with his boy partners. In the Philippines, foreign pedophiles usually prey on boy prostitutes who are used as the female in the

Sexual Attachment to Children

Sexual obsessions with children includes both lesbian and heterosexual fixations as well as interest of men in boys. Some males are obsessively attracted to young girls, even to infants; and some females too are sexually obsessed

Gerontophili a
From Greek gerontos old folks and philos love, it means love of older persons. As some individuals are extremely attracted to young children, others are obsessed with older people.

Mixoscopia/ Voyeurism
An individual is obsessively-exclusively derives sexual satisfaction from peeping adventures. From the French voir to see, a voyeur is one who is sexually gratified by looking at sexual organs or acts. Generally, mixoscopes or peeping toms are sexually inhibited or weak; they need more than ordinary stimulation to provide any sexual arousal.

Pygmalionis m
A rare sexual deviation in which individuals are obsessively and exclusively attracted to and aroused sexually by statues, especially statues of nude women. A pygmalionist may even masturbate before or defile such statues to give vent to

Bestialit y
From the Latin bestialis beast, bestiality refers to sexual intercourse between a human being and an animal of a different species. Oftentimes bestiality also implies sodomy (Latin: sodom, to whose people this practice was imputed) which is unnatural sexual relations between male persons or between a human being and an animal. Sexual arousal may end in actual

PREVENTIVE MEASURES
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Some of the prophylactic measures that can be taken to prevent or a girl from becoming a sex deviate arechild follows: raised with a healthy, as should be A
thoroughly non-guilty attitude toward human sexuality. From an early age, one should be taught sex is good, beautiful and beneficial. A child should be taught that some laws are necessary for the governing of sex, love, and marital relationships, and that these laws are protective of ones right to sex and happiness; hence, they must be followed for ones own good and the good of others.

Children should be given extensive and intensive sex education, in an objective and impersonal manner, and should be particularly instructed about sex deviations. They should be shown that deviant sex behavior is childish and disturbed, and hence to be combated and to get rid of. Children should be stronly encouraged to have heterosexual experiences and to be thoroughly unguilty about their participation. Guilty feelings about ones sexual experiences is one of the causes of sex indifference or bitterness which may possibly

Children should be raised and nurtured and brought up in such a way that they like themselves and are willing to take risks of sexlove challenges. They should be made to realize that life is a blending of success and failure, love and hate, happiness and sorrow, misery and bliss. In the midst of these everchanging situations, one should brace oneself and expect not only the best but also the worst things to happen.

Pornography and Prostitution

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Pornography
From the Greek pornographos writing of prostitutes (porne prostitute and graphein to write), pornography means obscene and prurient literature or art. Presently, it has come to mean the deliberate employmentor use of sexually arousing pictorials or reading matter. An individuals becoming sexually aroused by reading pornographic sex materials, etc. is certainly normal, non-deviated and

If and when a man or woman, however, becomes os addicted to pornography that he or she cannot get sexually aroused without viewing pornographic representations or lascivious sex scenes, such a persons compulsive obsession with prurient obscenity is deviated. There is something wrong, psychologically, with that kind of individual.

Prostitution
It involves the selling of sexual services for a price, either in cash or kind. Originally, a woman offered her body for hire for purposes of sexual intercourse, e.g., a harlot or whore. Female prostitutes in the Philippines, locally known as hospitality girls or mga kalapating mababa ang lipad, include hostesses in cocktail lounge and nightclubs

Male prostitutes or call boys constitute university students, stewards, tour guides and models. Low-class male prostitutes are waiters, sauna boys, ago-go dancers, male hosts and stand-bys. Child prostitutes (young boys and girls), aged seven to fifteen likewise abound in Metro Manila. Young children of their age are forced into prostitution due to impoverishment. They have to supplement family income and to help send a younger

Sexual Anomalies and Ailments

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infirmities may be devoid of any moral bearing; hence they are more pathological than ethical in nature. However, a number of these abnormal conditions may be voluntary in cause insofar as they are the after-effects of deliberate and willed acts. Only in these sense will they be regarded as having moral

Dyspareunia

Painful intercourse prolonged for more than a few weeks in an unusual condition. Various physical causes (female): *small vaginal entrance *inflammation of the sex organs *a thick or inelastic hymen

*an infected ovary or tube *shrinkage of the vagina (in older females) *sagging of the pelvic structures *lack of lubrication or poor sexual technique

Dyspareunia exists in the male due to: *an inflamed urinary opening *a too tight or irritated foreskin (uncircumcised) *other sensitivities of the penis

Consulting a medical specialist becomes the concerned individuals moral responsibility. The longer the condition continues, the more difficult it usually becomes to cure.

Vaginismus

Priapism

This occurs when strong spasmodic contractions of the muscles at the entrance of the vagina result in the blocking of penilevaginal intromission. It is usually caused by extreme fears of sex and/or poor personal relations between sex mates. Medical exam should be sought before

From Priapos in Greek mythology, the god of male procreative power, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, priapism is a prolonged and persistent erection of penis or clitoris, usually without sexual desire, which cannot be relieved by orgasm. It usually results from certain injuries and

Nymphomania

Satyriasis

It is an extreme and sexual desire in women. A nymphomaniac has intense sexual craving that is not relieved by intercourse or orgasm and which may drive her to her nearmadness. It is exceptionally rare and caused by

It refers to an excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire in men. Sukdulang pananabik o pagkalibog ng isang lalaki. This intense and insatiable desire on the part of a male generally resulsts from severe neuropsychiatric disease or disorder.

Hermaphroditism

Cryptorchidism
From Greek kryptos hidden, it is a sex anomaly in which a male has one or two hidden or undescended testicles Hormonal or surgical treatment is required in serious cases if both testicles fail to go down to their

From Hermaphroditus in Greek mythology, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who became united with the nymph Salmacis in a single body, it is a very rare condition in which an individual has both male and female sexual organs. they are formed in

Penis Captivus

The capture of the penis by the vagina in such a way that the male cannot release himself. Priapists erection is persistent and prolonged even for a long after orgasm or ejaculation has occurred. This strange sexual phenomenon is very rare.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)

Commonly known as veneral diseases (VD), STD includes syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) -a fatal disease that destroys the bodys immune defense mechanism, its ability to fight off some infections and cancers, AIDS is, presently incurable. No known AIDS patient has ever recorded.

Application of Ethical Theories

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Natural Law Ethics

Perceives

human sexuality as sacred insofar as it is God-given God created man and woman as sexual partners in order to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth This biblical injunction seems to indicate that human sexuality is not only good and beautiful since it is God-inspired, but a divine obligation as well What is morally evil, hence immoral, is the

Kants Ethical Principle

Always

act as to treat humanity, either yourself or others, always an end and never as only means. e.g. this can be taken that masturbation or self-stimulation is one way of treating oneself as only a means rather as an end
For

Kant, in masturbation one is using, misusing, and abusing oneself; one is

Rawls Concept of Justice

Sexploitation

or exploitation of sex is not

legitimate Rawls stresses our duty to respect others as persons, and never to take advantage of them, nor to use them for our personal gains

Fletchers Situationism
An

evil means does not nullify a good end; it all depends upon a given situation e.g. A mother, for instance, with five small children who have been abandoned by their own father, who, in turn, has married another woman, may be forced to work in a disco house or night club; her loving concern for the well being and survival of her young growing children may compel her to accept financial offers in exchange for sexual favors