2003.001 Sexual Ethics and Criminal Law, Lester ... - Francis Bennion

We should comply with the ethical code not only directly but
4.
It guides our own sexual acts and also our response to the
indirectly.
acts of others. What we must not do ourselves, we must not
sexual
others doing. What it is our duty to do, it is our duty to
countenance
Because the ethical code cannot be known in precise detail its
5.
may be unclear in particular cases, and cannot be free
prescriptions
dispute. The present text (referred to in this book as 'the Code')
from
to formulate the ethical code, so far as it relates speci®cally to
attempts
sexuality, in a form most likely to produce certainty and
human
agreement in the modern western secular culture.
command
It is important to bear in mind when reading the Code that its e€ect is
6.
to be cumulative. Each precept is subject to limitations stated
intended
in the Code, and also by precepts of the ethical code not
elsewhere
to sexual matters. The Code is concerned only with morality,
speci®c
pays no regard to law or aesthetics. In the Code references to acts
and
omissions.
include
Since we are all sexual beings we should look upon our own or
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sexual organs, functions and desires positively, with welcoming
another's
that they exist and work (the duty of sex acceptance). We
acceptance
never look on them negatively, with dislike, regret or contempt.
should
does not mean that remediable sexual disorders ought to be accepted
This
they are, or that immoral sexual behaviour should be tolerated.
as
The duty of ethical action
help others do also. All this may be called the duty of ethical action.
The present Code
Interpreting the Code
ACCEPTING OUR SEXUALITY
The duty of sex-acceptance
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