LIMITS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM AND THE NOTION OF PERVERSION: IS SEXUAL ETHICS “APPLIED?”

Nenad Cekić

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUPSPH1801089C
First page
089
Last page
095

Abstract


This article has two main points: 1) there are no reasons why sexual ethics should be excluded from fashionable “applied ethics” and “bioethics” investigations, and 2) that the key concepts of “sexual discourse” – especially the concept of “perversion” – deserves full philosophical attention. As an example, the author offers a brief analysis of the reasons why, despite the ruling “libertarian paradigm,” the concept of “perversion” should be kept in ordinary language.


Keywords

bioethics, sexual ethics, perversion, ordinary language

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