Consent and mutuality in sex education. Issue 5 (23rd August 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Consent and mutuality in sex education. Issue 5 (23rd August 2022)
- Main Title:
- Consent and mutuality in sex education
- Authors:
- Hand, Michael
- Other Names:
- Hand Michael guestEditor.
Parker Stephen G. guestEditor. - Abstract:
- Abstract: Sharon Lamb, Sam Gable and Doret de Ruyter have recently argued that sex education in schools should promote a more demanding standard for morally permissible sex than consent. On their view, pupils should be taught that morally permissible sex is not only consensual but also mutual, where mutuality requires participants in sex to 'try to know what is knowable' about each other. I argue here that, while Lamb et al. are right about the insufficiency of consent, the case for mutuality as a standard of moral permissibility cannot be sustained. Mutuality fares better as a standard of moral desirability, but even in this weaker form, it is too controversial to promote in schools.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of philosophy of education. Volume 56:Issue 5(2022)
- Journal:
- Journal of philosophy of education
- Issue:
- Volume 56:Issue 5(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 56, Issue 5 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0056-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 677
- Page End:
- 684
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-23
- Subjects:
- consent -- moral desirability -- moral permissibility -- mutuality -- plain sex -- sex education
Education -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
Education -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
370.1 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9752 ↗
https://academic.oup.com/jope ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/1467-9752.12681 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0309-8249
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