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Sexual ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - However if the maxim is simply to ‘follow your own oreintation’, then that does seem universifiable
- - - - Suggests we were clothes, covering our genitals, sex is done in private - suggests this is because of shame
      - Shame of original sin
    - - Traditional conservative approaches to Christian ethics would regard the bible as the perfect word of god - all sex outside of heterosexual marriage is condemned in the bible so wrong in this view
      - ‘If a man lies with a man as he does with a woman, both have committed an abomination’
      - Bibleis clear that god has commanded that sex should be within marriage - ‘thou shalt not commit adultery’
      - In the sermon on the mount, Jesus goes as far as claiming that even having sexually impure thoughts/desires is wrong - Matthew 5:28
    - - Argue bible is not the perfect word of god but instead just a product of the human mind
  - - - Argues paedophile priest scandal can be explained by the churches repressive attitude towards sex