PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Pedophilia, Zoophilia, Voyeurism
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Pleasure and contact are interconnected because you can"t have one from the other. Technically distinct things, but sexual desire comes specifically from that contact. Raises the question, has he defined pleasure specifically enough? (loophole: friendly hug?) Only thing separating that physical desire from sexual physical desire is pleasure. By being too narrow in activity aspect he"s arguing against letting in personality (ex. What this may be nature"s" purpose, it certainly need not be ours the development of contraception rendered the connection weak. (271: theory came out when every sex act was a moral decision used to be a moral act. Contains a moral aspect because we couldn"t change the context in which it was happening: excludes too much (i. e. kisses). One common position views sex as essentially an expression of love or affection between the partners (272: love and sex are not the same thing love is a long term slow experience.