Ethics: Argues points made by Prof. Raymond Angelo Belliotti's essay Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible

Someone Finally Caught On: Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible In the chapter on Sex, Love, and Marriage of "The Moral Life" we are posed with a very interesting article about sexual ethics. The essay is called Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible, and is written by Raymond Angelo Belliotti. Belliotti is a professor of philosophy at SUNY Fredonia, and has written many works on moral philosophy. In Belliotti's view any …

…note and the conclusion of his essay he notes that some of his analysis in certain cases may seem to be more liberal than conventional moralists (pp688). However, he also notes that these actions that he describes, bestiality, necrophilia etc... are offensive to our tastes, not in our best long-term interests, and may be psychologically harmful. He also advises against most if not all of the aforementioned acts, on which I unconditionally with him agree.