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Sexual Ethics

What Happened to the Mystery of Sexual Attraction?

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Have you noticed all the scientific talk about sexual attraction? Most recently scientists tell us it is simply about pheromones. If you smell of those things, then you are a good catch. End of story.
Although we do not know what pheromones smell like, we pick up the scent immediately. So, the pheromone market is booming. [...]

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What Good Is Sexual Attraction in The First Place?

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If you wonder about eros, you are not the only one. In fact, if you find a person who does not wonder about eros, you may want to call a doctor. Because your perception is most likely wrong and there would be something wrong with that you. Because that person does not exist.
This is no [...]

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Why Are We Two? And Why Two Sexes?

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Human beings are either male or female. It is possible that we could have been only one sex. Or three. Or more. But it seems that we are not. We are two sexes. Why is that?
The biblical story is a particularly interesting resource to use when we want to answer this question. Mostly because it [...]

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Why Do So Few Women Commit Rape?

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Women are not the only victims of rape. Men are too. Some say 10-15% of all rape victims are men.
Interestingly, however, men are mostly raped by other men, not by women. This means that it is mostly men who commit rape. I wonder why that is. Do you have any suggestion?
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Why Do We Passively Watch Young Women Pressured into Sexual Relationships?

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“A significant number of teenage girls suffer date rape as their first or nearly first experience of sexual intercourse.” This statement was made 21 years ago. I do not want to think about the current numbers. Even worse, I do not think we can get to them, and here is why.
Most of us ignore the [...]

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How Do You Communicate Consent?

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There is no way a sexual relationship will not involve some kind of power plays. Sometimes these plays are nothing other than igniting the power of attraction. Sometimes they are so extreme that they involve violence.
It is difficult to assess all the different levels of power that sexual encounters can involve. There is attraction [...]

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When Can You Say Your Husband Raped You?

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We usually think of rape as something a male stranger does to a woman. In the 1970s there was a surge of awareness in America of these kinds of rapes. Women started taking self-defense classes and carry whistles.
Only reluctantly, over the years that followed, did women start sharing their experiences with date-rape and acquaintance-rape. But [...]

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