The appropriate answer is
a sexual ethics of love.
Not exact matches
Such a
love ethic is nonexploitative (hence no
sexual exploitation
of children, no using
of another to his or her loss); it does not dominate (hence no patriarchal treatment
of women as chattel); it is responsible, mutual, caring and
loving.
But I want folks to know that abandoning the painful and destructive narrative that a single
sexual encounter can «ruin» a person or make her unworthy
of love doesn't mean swinging to the opposite extreme to endorse an anything - goes
sexual ethic.
[His] close friendships with women... lived in an intimacy that was not
sexual but was quite real,... helped Karol Wojtyła / JP II give a fresh new articulation to the
ethics of love and responsibility (to borrow 1
of his book's titles).
Hence it has failed to provide a climate and an
ethic which releases the full power
of sexual love to serve human life.
This is the phenomenology, particularly as practiced by Max Scheler,
of which Wojtyla became a student, and which would in time lead him into novel, but orthodox, expositions
of sexual ethics (
Love and Responsibility), and into even more novel, though no less orthodox, expositions
of the human person as the self - possessed locus
of action and thought (The Acting Person).
According to this way
of thinking, one
of the issues for
sexual ethics is how the
love of two people for each other affects their relationship with God.
Since the nineteenth century, the
sexual ethics of «the family pew» have been conceptualized in Old Testament terms without much reference to modifications introduced by Jesus» law
of love.
The
sexual ethics of my childhood and adolescence repeatedly counseled that I
love and accept my body; that I understand that my soul becomes sick when my pleasure is not nourished.
National Catholic Reporter: Vatican criticizes US theologian's book on
sexual ethics The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith has sharply criticized Just
Love, an award - winning book on
sexual ethics by Mercy Sr..
«Just
Love» surveys sexual ethics from various philosophical, historical, religious and anthropological perspectives before turning to its central topic: the ethics of love and
Love» surveys
sexual ethics from various philosophical, historical, religious and anthropological perspectives before turning to its central topic: the
ethics of love and
love and sex.