Sex and Morals

 Alan Goldman’s “Plain Sex” discusses Goldman’s views of sex essentially is about the desires to be in contact with another person’s body and the pleasure it gives. He thinks that sex doesn’t mean to necessarily mean anything. Goldman views that there is not moral issues when it comes to sex. He says, “ To the question of what morality might be implied by my analysis, the answer is that there are no moral implications whatever.” Even though Goldman thinks that sex doesn’t correlate with morals he does say, “rape is always a sexual act and it is always immoral.” Harm is definitely an important factor of something that is not moral, but it isn’t the only thing that can determine what is moral and what is not. Ethics provides numerous ways of testing morality of any type of action, including sex. For example, you can ask yourself if your behavior in certain sexual activities is contradicting the traditional values and religion you follow and obey to. Or you could ask yourself if you are forming particular bad habits that could hinder with your future.  These are obviously not the only questions you could ask yourself, but the point is that you shouldn’t dismiss these morality principles and only abide to the principle of harm.

Goldman thinks there is no morality to sex itself, but as you can see many factors could determine the morality of the sexual behavior. I don’t think you can just acknowledge harm and not any other moral values.