Adult-Child Sex and the Demands of Virtuous Sexual Morality

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• 作者：Agustin Malón
• 关键词：Children ; Sexual abuse ; Sexual morality ; Pedophilia ; Sexual consent ; Sex education
• 刊名：Sexuality & Culture
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：247-269
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• 刊物主题：Social Sciences, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Psychology, general; Regional and Cultural Studies;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4822
• 卷排序：21

文摘

This article is the continuation of a previous analysis of the usual arguments—lack of consent, exploitation and harm—used to evaluate sexual experiences between adults and children from general moral principles. It has been suggested that those arguments were insufficient to condemn all adult-child sexual experiences, and that it would be of interest to study others that come from a specific sexual morality based on a more complex and transcendent conception of human eroticism and sexual conduct. This paper develops three different arguments against adult-child sex from this perspective, a view which, while not rejecting the Kantian and utilitarian approaches, complements and transforms them with a virtue ethic that questions not only the permissibility of certain acts but also their moral desirability under this frame of reference. This helps us to clarify the scientific discourse on adult-child sex and directs us to the importance of attending to the educational dimension of this moral problem.