Sexual use and what to do about it : internalist and externalist sexual ethics

In Adrianne McEvoy (ed.), Essays in Philosophy. Rodopi. pp. 2 (2011)
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I begin by describing the hideous nature of sexuality, that which makes sexual desire and activity morally suspicious, or at least what we have been told about the moral foulness of sex by, in particular, Immanuel Kant, but also by some of his predecessors and by some contemporary philosophers.2 A problem arises because acting on sexual desire, given this Kantian account of sex, apparently conflicts with the Categorical Imperative. I then propose a typology of possible solutions to this sex problem and critically discuss recent philosophical ethics of sex that fall into the typology's various categories

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Feminist perspectives on objectification.Evangelia Papadaki - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Good Sex on Kantian Grounds, or A Reply to Alan Soble.Joshua Schulz - 2007 - Essays in Philosophy 8 (2):301-317.

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Could it be Worth Thinking about Kant on Sex and Marriage?Barbara Herman - 1993 - In Louise Antony & Charlotte Witt (eds.), A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity. Boulder CO: Westview Press. pp. 49-68.
Sexual Use and What To Do About It.Alan Soble - 2001 - Essays in Philosophy 2 (2):37-54.
Introduction.Frederick Elliston - 1983 - Teaching Philosophy 6 (3):195-204.

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