Ethics
Related: morals - values - philosophy - sexual ethics
The Ethics of Sexual Acts (1934) - René Guyon
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Definition
Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ?thikos, the adjective of ?thos "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group and covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility. It is divided into three primary areas: meta-ethics (the study of the concept of ethics), normative ethics (the study of how to determine ethical values), and applied ethics (the study of the use of ethical values). --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics [Apr 2007]
Sexual ethics
Related: sexual consensuality - decency and indecency - sexual education - sex philosophy - René Guyon
Sexual ethics is a sub-category of ethics that pertain to acts falling within the broad spectrum of human sexual behavior, sexual intercourse in particular. Broadly speaking questions of sexual ethics can be organized into issues related to consent, issues related to the institution of marriage such as marital fidelity and premarital and non-marital sex, issues related to sexuality, questions about how gender and power are expressed through sexual behavior, questions about how individuals relate to society, and questions about how individual behavior impacts public health concerns.
Ethical dilemmas which involve sex can often appear in situations where there is a significant power difference or where there is a pre-existing professional relationship between the participants, or where consent is partial or uncertain.
Sexual ethics could also include the ethics of procreation: "is it ethical to create a child in an overpopulated world?", "Is it ethical to have children if they would be born into poverty?" etc. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_ethics [Apr 2007]
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