(May 31, 2015 at 1:26 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 8:08 am)Twisted Wrote: what kind of sexual ethics should we have as an Atheist?
This is my opinion, not the voice of athism...
Fuck whoever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want (within the dictates of local law), as often as you want, always assuming your chosen partners are of legal age and able to give consent.
Sex should have the moral consequences of attending a concert or a movie, not the bullshit dreamed up by iron age goat herders.
The thing is, sex can have very real consequences that one normally does not have from merely attending a concert or a movie. Watching a movie can not, in itself, result in a pregnancy or the transmission of a venereal disease. Those very real possibilities make sex something that should be done with greater care than watching a movie requires.
That obviously does not mean that one should pay any attention to religious nonsense about sex. But it does mean that it isn't the same sort of thing as going to a concert or movie.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
