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WHY A SEXUAL ETHIC IS NECESSARY

Popular ways to characterizing society,
they actually are corelated

economic system (Marx)

those who can obtain food never solely for themselves but for families

family system (Freud)

to raise kids, people save economically

sexual morals
of communities

Postive Institutions embodied in law

enforce whatever sexual ethic is adopted by the community in question

protect the ordinary rights
of individuals in the sphere of sex

protection of the females & non-adults
from assault & harmful exploitation

passage of laws easily evaded by professional malefactors,
while affording opportunities of blackmail against harmless people.

prevention of veneral disease

effective on purely medical grounds

since veneral disease is shameful causes it to
be concealed, & not promptly or adequately treated.

law doesn't intervene but public opinion is emaphatic

individual discretion

effects of a sexual ethic

purely personal

adult behaviour

adult behaviour inculated by a code

early education designed to produce obedience to the code

relations between men and women

(some sex relations have more value than others.)

Love increases in value in proportion as more of the personalities of the people concerned enters into the relation

family

Monogamic patriarchal family

marriage decided by parties themselves

marriage decided by parents

one party can be purchased

divorce differences

Polygamic family

population

hygienic aspects

health of mothers

health of children

psychological effects of family on character of children

economic aspects

personal

public

eugenic question

twofold task in criticizing the current ethics

eliminate superstition

new factors that make the wisdom of the past ages folly instead of wisdom of the present.

WHERE FATHERHOOD IS UNKNOWN

marriage customs

instinctive

love and jealousy are both instinctive emotions, but religion has decreed that jealousy is bad and love is at best excusable.

the instinctive element in sex relations is much less than is usually supposed.

where human beings are concerned, instinct is extraordinarily vague
and easily turned aside from its natural course.
Only sucking in infancy can really be called instinctive.

what we have with human is a dissatisfaction leading to various activities
and gradully at an activity which gives satisfaction and repeat.

mother love is instinctive for physical tie.
father love is physiological parenthood,
indirect/hypothetical/inferential (bound up with the virtue of wife)

why father love child

he believes it's his child

he believes it's his wife's child.
(this works for father unknown)

fatherhood for
Trobriand Islanders

power

maternity uncle

love

father

no "God's children" since they don't think
anybody is the child of any male.

economic

religious

THE DOMINION OF THE FATHER

parental feeling

physiological factor above

father recognizes the child as his "seed"

love of power

desire to survive death

family ambition

matrilineal

cofined to women

patriarchal

discovery of fatherhood make society more competitive, energetic, dynamic & hustling

more insisting on virtue of wives

jealousy, not purely instinctive, is the fear of falsification of descent.

women are kept artificially stupid and therefore uninteresting.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children. as well as women's contribution to civilization

fatherhood, economic motives to multiplication.

PHALLIC WORSHIP
ASCETICISIM & SIN

Fruitfulness

crops, flocks

women

female genitalia, suggested by cowry shell

to phallic worship

Moon Worship

many culture (such as Maori State) the moon has been
regarded the true father of all children.

Lunar calendar

Sun Worship

Solar calendar

In Egypt, the conflict has been
the reason for a civil war.

victory because sun has
more influence over crops.

sacred prostitution

ordinary respectable women went to temple to have intercourse
with priest or casual stranger. some priestesses were saced harlots.

Sin

religion

anti-sexual attitude

jealousy

men want no women love others, especially wife.

if men found wife betrayed, will fill with disguest for both lovers,
and easy to conclude sex is beastly.
(esp if he has impotent through excess or old age.)

sexual fatigue

civilization

economic factor

married women & prostitutes make living by sexual charms

animals don't have it, rare among uncivilized men

celibacy

priests and priestess are married to divinities

Solar calendar

In Egypt, the conflict has been
the reason for a civil war.

CHRISTIAN ETHICS

ROMANTIC LOVE

Dark ages

In marriage, wife had no rights

outside marriage, all sin, no object in curbing the natural beastliness of the uncivilized male.

Middle ages

Greco-Roman traditions of the Church

learning

philosophy

canon law

conception of the unity of Christendom

Teutonic traditions of the aristocracy

Romantic love

commonly recognized form
of passion since Middle Ages

Essence: the beloved object is

difficult to possess

value of the lady =
the difficulty of obtaining her

The belief in the immense value of the lady is a psychological effect of the difficulty of obtaining her, and I think itmaybe laid down that when a man has no difficulty in obtaining a women, his feeling towards her does not take the form of romantic love.

A man who deeply loved and respected a woman would find it impossible to associate with her the idea of sexual intercourse, since all sexual intercourse would be to him more or less impure; his love would therefore take poetic and imaginative forms, and would naturally become filled with
symbolism.

The sentimental point of Pyramus and Thisbe, of Cephalus and Procris, lies in their tragic end in the heart-rending loss of a happiness already enjoyed.

men had so little difficulty in securing the women they desired that it hardly ever became necessary to woo them with music and poetry. From the point of view of the arts, it is certainly regrettable when women are too accessible; what is most to be desired is that they should be difficult but not impossible of access.

Romantic love as it existed in Shelley depends upon a state of unstable equilibrium, where the conventional barriers still exist but are not quite insuperable; if the barriers are rigid, or if they do not exist, romantic love is not likely to flourish.

very precious

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer.

Since French revolution, idea has grown up
that marriage should be the outcome of romantic love.

Certain it is that when people marry without previous sexual knowledge of each other and under the influence of romantic love, each imagines the other to be possessed of more than mortal perfections, and conceives that marriage is going to be one long dream of bliss.

Marriage is something more serious than the pleasure of two people in each other’s company; it is an institution which, through the fact that it gives rise to children, forms part of the intimate texture of society, and has an importance extending far beyond the personal feelings of the husband and wife. It may be good—I think it is good—that romantic love should form the motive for a marriage, but it should be understood that the kind of love which will enable a marriage to remain happy and to fulfil its social purpose is not romantic but is something more intimate, affectionate, and realistic.

romantic love is not essential to marriage, children makes marriage important

THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN

transitional condition of sexual morals

invention of contraceptives

emancipation of women

part of democratic movement, begins with French revolution

my mother used to make speeches in favour of votes for women in the sixties.

feminism movement - at that time confined to the upper & middle classes.

Married Women’s Property Act (1882)

political right

reason

direct influence of democratic theory