BIOETHICS LECTURE 3 Flashcards
(34 cards)
encompasses nearly every aspect of our being, from attitudes and values, to feelings and experiences. It is influenced by the individual, family, culture, religion/spirituality, laws, professions, institutions, science, and politics.
Sexuality
Our level of awareness, acceptance, and enjoyment of our own and others’ bodies
Sensuality
Our ability to express and have a need for closeness with another person
Intimacy
Our biological sex—the anatomical parts, hormones, and chromosomes we have at birth
Sexual Identity
Our attitudes and behaviors toward our health and the consequences of sexual activity.
Sexual Health & Reproduction
Our use of power and influence to manipulate or control others with our sexuality.
Sexualization
how we feel about and identify as our gender (masculine, feminine, gender non-conforming)
Gender identity
who we are sexually attracted to (straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual)
Sexual orientation
it makes us realize the need for some measure of fulfillment that only the other can give.
Sexual
One has to be free from self-centeredness by opening one to the other person.
Morality of Human Sexuality
A happiness that is sought for ourselve alone can never be found. For a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
Morality of Human Sexuality
making someone happy
morality of human sexuality
human sexuality is equal to
commitment
commitment consists of three, What are they
- care
- concern
- responsibility
Safeguarding the other’s value
Commitment
Responsibility to and for one another
commitment
Human sex is ____ if and when it destroys a person’s honor, and becomes a degradation of the other
dehumanizing
human sexuality is sacred and god-given gift
natural law
act as to treat human as always, an end, never as means
Kant
● Justice is fairness.
● Never take advantage of persons for own personal gains and satisfaction
Rawls
Prostitution out of necessity and survival may be legitimate
Fletcher
the intimate union and equal partnership of a man and a woman.
marriage
Marriage is both a ___ and a ____
because it is rooted in the divine plan of creation.
- natural institution
- sacred union
___, ____, and ___ are essential to marriage because they foster and protect the two equal purposes of marriage
Permanency, exclusivity, and faithfulness