Sexual ethics
Subtitle: the meaning and foundations of sexual morality
By: by Aurel Kolnai ; translated and edited by Francis Dunlop.
Contributors: Dunlop, Francis.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlingtron, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Sexual ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The justification of sexual ethics; title: The ethical experience of sex; title: The special character of the sexual ethical outlook; title: The ethical confirmation of sexual morality; title: The 'naturalness' of sexual ethics; title: The scope and basic content of sexual ethics; title: Relativism and immoralism; title: The confusions of relativism; title: True 'relativity' and the absoluteness of ethical values; title: Forms of immoralism; title: Critique of immoralism; title: What can we expect from sexual ethics?; title: The importance of sexual ethical considerations; title: Sexual ethics: ideal and reality; title: How can sexual ethics be effective?; title: Part II: Sexual ethics in general; title: Sex: its aspects of conditionality, intentionality and goal-directedness; title: Sexual pleasure; title: The relation to the 'other sex'; title: The goal of reproduction; title: Special features of sex; title: Its 'apartness'; title: Its 'all-pervasiveness'; title: The enormous extent of its claim; title: Its polymorphousness; title: The interwinement of body and spirit; title: The creation of interpersonal intimacy; title: The fundamental relation between sex and society; title: Its 'irrationality'; title: The sexes; title: The division of mankind into male and female; title: The desire of each sex for the other; title: Male and female; title: Sexual ethics and the division of the sexes: male and female sexual; title: Ethics; title: Basic principles of sexual ethics; title: Sex: its dangers and values; title: The most general demands of sexual ethics: limitation, completeness; title: And compatibility; title: Sexual ethics and religion; title: Sexual ethics and utility; title: Types of impurity in sexual relations; title: Some remarks on the structure of sexual morality; title: Part III: Detailed problems of sexual ethics; title: Particular ethical distinctions in sex; title: Gradations in judgement; title: Ordered and disordered sex; title: Interpersonal and individual psychological aspects; title: The incest taboo; title: Questions relating to monogamy; title: The meaning of marriage; title: Conjugal love; title: The problem of fidelity; title: The marriage-bond and the love-relationship; title: Disordered sexual relations and the 'erotic'; title: Prostitution; title: Monogamy and abstention; title: Questions relating to normality; title: Normal intercourse and deviations; title: Perversions in general; title: Solitary and 'frustrated' sex; title: Homosexuality; title: Sadism and masochism; title: Fetishism; title: Normality and abstinence; title: Ways of dealing with sex; title: Modesty; title: Sex as an object of representation; title: Sexuality as a component of life; title: Part IV: Sexual morality and society; title: The sexual ethical claim of 'society'; title: The perspective of social morality; title: Sexual activity and the law; title: The 'conduct of life'; title: Moral questions of special importance for society; title: Women's 'honour'; title: The family; title: Birth-control; title: Moral education; title: Sexual ethics and culture; title: 'Modernity' and the collapse of the 'old morality'; title: Evaluating the 'modern morality'; title: Sexual morality and the state of society.