' no need for religious rules ab private sexual behaviour'

• Natural moral law

  - Summa Theologica

  • Primary precepts - live in an ordered society and procreate
  • Rejects homosexuality, pre-marital sex and extra-marital sex
  • Genesis 2:24 - "a man would leave his father and mother and be united with his wife and they'll become one flesh" - goes against the worship God precept
  • Sex that isn't directed towards reproduction is an apparent good not real good - doesn't account for infertile couples
• Christian Moral Values

  • Homosexuality is immoral and unnatural
  • Romans 1 26:27 - "consumed with passion" , "women exchanged relations for those that are contrary to their nature" ,"men gave up natural relations"
  • upholds Aquinas' view of procreation as God wanted humans to "be fruitful and multiply"
  • outdated and negative view
• Situation Ethics

  • Situation Ethics: The New Morality
  • Based on Christian love
  • Mark 12:31 - "Love your neighbour as yourself"
  • Focuses on agape love
  • Approves of situational extramarital sex - example of women as prisoner in a camp > had extramarital sex to escape (example not suitable as exceptional, but that is subjective)
  • Can break Christian norms on sex if it's based on justice and unconditional love -Fundamental principles = "justice is love distributed" - approves homosexuality and premarital sex
• Lisa Sowle Cahill

  • Critic of secularism
  • Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics
  • Religious teachings imposed protects women from male abandonment as they were from an era when men had concubines
  • Ephesians 5:22 and 5:25 : "Wives, submit to your husbands" and "Husbands, love your wives" - meant to protect women as it means that they couldn't leave
• Kantian Ethics (secular)

  • Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
  • Against extra-marital sex as it's against the categorical imperative which is to follow your duty - those being your marital promises of loyalty (recognises respect for others and not treating them "merely as a means")
  • Against homosexuality - can't be universalised (this doesn't mean that it's wrong)
  • Only marrying for reproduction is treating someone as a means to an end
• Germaine Greer

  • 'The Female Eunuch'
  • feminist critic
  • "status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to ensnare a man"
  • women have freedom outside of heterosexual marriage and their sexual liberty should be regarded as such
• J.S Mill

  • Harm principle - action is ok as long as others aren't harmed
  • "power can be exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will [if it's] to prevent harm to others"