PHIL 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Open Marriage
11 May 2016
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To see this, consider the open marriage case. The open marriage case: the spouses have agreed in advance that extramarital sex is acceptable behavior for each to engage in (220). As a result there is no impulse to deceive each other about the occurrence or nature of any such relationships, and that no deception in fact occurs (220). The spouses have extramarital sex on a regular basis. Possible objection: the people involved in the open marriage case are not really married, since in order for them to be genuinely married, each of them must have committed himself/herself to have sexual relationships only with his/her spouse (220). As a result, we cannot say that they commit adultery (for, only married people can commit adultery). Wasserstrom"s response: suppose the two persons were of the opposite sex. Finally, suppose that they had not committed themselves to having sex only with each other.
