Marriage & Morals
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Marriage & Morals
WHY A SEXUAL ETHIC IS NECESSARY
economic system (Marx)
those who can obtain food never solely for themselves but for families
family system (Freud)
sexual morals of communities
Postive Institutions embodied in law
enforce whatever sexual ethic is adopted by the community in question
protect the ordinary rights of individuals in the sphere of sex
protection of the females & non-adults from assault & harmful exploitation
prevention of veneral disease
effective on purely medical grounds
law doesn't intervene but public opinion is emaphatic
individual discretion
effects of a sexual ethic
purely personal
adult behaviour
adult behaviour inculated by a code
early education designed to produce obedience to the code
relations between men and women
(some sex relations have more value than others.)
Love increases in value in proportion as more of the personalities of the people concerned enters into the relation
family
Monogamic patriarchal family
marriage decided by parties themselves
marriage decided by parents
one party can be purchased
divorce differences
Polygamic family
population
hygienic aspects
health of mothers
health of children
psychological effects of family on character of children
economic aspects
personal
public
eugenic question
twofold task in criticizing the current ethics
eliminate superstition
new factors that make the wisdom of the past ages folly instead of wisdom of the present.
WHERE FATHERHOOD IS UNKNOWN
marriage customs
instinctive
the instinctive element in sex relations is much less than is usually supposed.
what we have with human is a dissatisfaction leading to various activities and gradully at an activity which gives satisfaction and repeat.
why father love child
he believes it's his child
he believes it's his wife's child. (this works for father unknown)
fatherhood for Trobriand Islanders
power
maternity uncle
love
father
no \"God's children\" since they don't think anybody is the child of any male.
economic
religious
THE DOMINION OF THE FATHER
parental feeling
physiological factor above
father recognizes the child as his \"seed\"
love of power
desire to survive death
family ambition
matrilineal
cofined to women
patriarchal
more insisting on virtue of wives
women are kept artificially stupid and therefore uninteresting.
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children. as well as women's contribution to civilization
PHALLIC WORSHIPASCETICISIM & SIN
Fruitfulness
women
to phallic worship
Moon Worship
many culture (such as Maori State) the moon has been regarded the true father of all children.
Lunar calendar
Sun Worship
Solar calendar
victory because sun has more influence over crops.
sacred prostitution
ordinary respectable women went to temple to have intercourse with priest or casual stranger. some priestesses were saced harlots.
Sin
religion
anti-sexual attitude
jealousy
sexual fatigue
civilization
economic factor
married women & prostitutes make living by sexual charms
celibacy
priests and priestess are married to divinities
CHRISTIAN ETHICS
ROMANTIC LOVE
Dark ages
Middle ages
Greco-Roman traditions of the Church
learning
philosophy
canon law
conception of the unity of Christendom
Teutonic traditions of the aristocracy
Romantic love
commonly recognized form of passion since Middle Ages
Essence: the beloved object is
difficult to possess
value of the lady = the difficulty of obtaining her
very precious
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer.
THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN
transitional condition of sexual morals
invention of contraceptives
emancipation of women
my mother used to make speeches in favour of votes for women in the sixties.
feminism movement - at that time confined to the upper & middle classes.
Married Women’s Property Act (1882)
political right
reason
direct influence of democratic theory
economic independent
social emancipate
virtue of women was secured by segregating not give them inward self-control
then they put women in mental prison
equality between men and women
political
sexual morality
female virtue
fear of hell fire
decay of theological orthodoxy
fear of pregnancy
contraceptives
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