The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sexual ethics:
Sexual ethics – branch of philosophy that explores the moral obligations, and permissibility, or impermissibility of sexual activities. Also deals with issues arising from all aspects of
sexuality and
human sexual behaviour relating to the community and
personal standards regarding the conduct of
interpersonal relationships, including issues of consent, sexual relations before
marriage and/or while married, including the issues of marital
fidelity and premarital and non-marital sex, sexual orientation, and more.
What type of thing is sexual ethics?
Sexual ethics can be described as all of the following:
A branch of
philosophy of sex – part of applied philosophy studying sex and love. It includes both ethics of phenomena such as prostitution, rape, sexual harassment, sexual identity, the age of consent, and homosexuality, and conceptual analysis of concepts such as "what is sex"?
Marriage—how the love described above is or is not related to the permissibility or forbiddenness of sex; what kind of commitment it is that is central to marriage.
Animal sexual behaviour, including masturbation and the majority of other topics on this list: the implications for the obligatoriness, permissibility, or forbiddenness of such behaviors in humans