The Ethics of Sexual Objectification: Autonomy and Consent

Marino, Patricia

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“…Other attempts to avoid a purely negative view of objectification can be found in my own work (Marino ) as well as that of Ann Cahill (). In my view autonomy, rather than instrumentalization, is the crux of the matter ethically.…”

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Philosophy of Sex

Marino

2014

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Sex raises fundamental philosophical questions about topics such as personal identity and well-being, the relationship between emotion and reason, the nature of autonomy and consent, and the dual nature of persons as individuals but also social beings. This article serves as an overview of the philosophy of sex in the English-speaking philosophical tradition and explicates philosophical debate in several specific areas: sexual objectification, rape and consent, sex work, sexual identities and queer theory, the medicalization of sexuality, and polyamory. It situates these topics in a framework of shifting cultural attitudes and argues for the importance of the philosophy of sex. It ends with some suggestions about future research, particularly with regard to the changing nature of pornography and sexual justice in legal theory.

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Section: Sexual Objectificationmentioning

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Philosophy of Sex

Marino

2014

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“…The relationship between porn stars and consumers of their images are market relationships and should be held to the norms of those relationships, not the norms of friendships and romance (Shrage, 2005). Similarly, Marino (2008) argues that respect for another's autonomy and consent are what is crucial for avoiding immoral sexual objectification, and not whether the sexual use is mutual or whether it takes place within an ongoing adult relationship. A person avoids treating another as a mere object or instrument if he is attentive to whether his partner is giving, tacitly or overtly, ongoing consent to the type of use and the particular instance of it.…”

Section: Sexual Objectificationmentioning

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“…Moreover, the background conditions must be such that the person who is used as a means to another's ends can be judged to be voluntarily and genuinely consenting. When these criteria are met in a one-sided commercial or casual exchange, then the instrumental use is not immoral (Marino, 2008). Saul (2006) explores the possible connection between objectification and personification.…”

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The female body in the sex business: Feminist perceptions from a historical perspective

2019

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In this paper, we examine feminist perceptions on the experiences and portrayal of women in sex commerce including pornography, prostitution, trafficking in persons and the use of sexual images of women to promote products and entertainment. This paper is largely a conceptual discussion of related literature, and thus data was generated through desktop review of related literature and previous empirical studies on sex markets. We establish that feminist theorists are divided on the question of whether markets in sexually explicit materials and sexual services are generally harmful to women. As a result, some feminist scholars have explored and developed arguments for restricting sex markets, while others have investigated political movements that aim to advance the rights of sex workers.

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“…These are certainly legitimate ethical concerns, and we agree that society should work hard to reduce systemic inequality, invidious sexual objectification (cf. Marino 2008), and the harmful erosion of empathy. But those problems stem from individual choices and social institutions, not from the sex robots themselves.…”

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Should We Campaign Against Sex Robots?

2017

Robot Sex

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In September 2015 a well-publicised Campaign Against Sex Robots (CASR) was launched. Modelled on the longer-standing Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the CASR opposes the development of sex robots on the grounds that the technology is being developed with a particular model of female-male relations (the prostitute-john model) in mind, and that this will prove harmful in various ways. In this chapter, we consider carefully the merits of campaigning against such a technology. We make three main arguments. First, we argue that the particular claims advanced by the CASR are unpersuasive, partly due to a lack of clarity about the campaign's aims and partly due to substantive defects in the main ethical objections put forward by campaign's founder(s). Second, broadening our inquiry beyond the arguments proferred by the campaign itself, we argue that it would be very difficult to endorse a general campaign against sex robots unless one embraced a highly conservative attitude towards the ethics of sex, which is likely to be unpalatable to those who are active in the campaign. In making this argument we draw upon lessons from the campaign against killer robots. Finally, we conclude by suggesting that although a generalised campaign against sex robots is unwarranted, there are legitimate concerns that one can raise about the development of sex robots.

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The Ethics of Sexual Objectification: Autonomy and Consent

Cited by 21 publications

References 4 publications

Philosophy of Sex

Philosophy of Sex

The female body in the sex business: Feminist perceptions from a historical perspective

Should We Campaign Against Sex Robots?

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