Sexual relationships are a very opinionated topic, Roger Scruton and Allan Goldman both describe them very different. You either believe that you can have sex with whoever you may please, or you may think there has to be love or some sort of connection for people to have sex with each other. Allan Goldman and Roger Scruton have two totally different point of views on sexual relationships. Goldman simply says that sex is plain sex, he separates sex from emotions. He said that sex is desire for pleasure and it does not need to be for any other reason. He also said sex is morally neutral, and “there is no morality intrinsic to sex.” (Goodman, 217). Scruton thoughts about sexual relationships is quite the opposite of Goldman’s. He says sex is not morally neutral,
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The joy of sexual desire defines the nature of desire. Is it natural to have impulses, or to have sexual desire or crave for a sexual love, but with self-control you can control your desires? He talks about how people should believe that their bodies are their temple. A holy place, where you should protect yourself from outside disturbances. Sexual safety which does not prohibit desire, but that it ensures the status of desire. He feels that when you do sexual stuff, it turns into a constant pattern. He talks a lot about lust. “Lust may be defined as a genuine sexual desire, from which the goal of erotic love has been excluded, and in which whatever tends towards that goal, tenderness, intimacy, fidelity, dependences, is curtailed or obstructed” (Scruton, 225). Those feelings you get afterwards just end up embarrassing yourself in the end. I agree with him on lust especially, you will end up feeling shameful in what you have done if there isn’t any love or connection there. I like his beliefs on sexual relationships through it all, I think the way he does about this certain
The joy of sexual desire defines the nature of desire. Is it natural to have impulses, or to have sexual desire or crave for a sexual love, but with self-control you can control your desires? He talks about how people should believe that their bodies are their temple. A holy place, where you should protect yourself from outside disturbances. Sexual safety which does not prohibit desire, but that it ensures the status of desire. He feels that when you do sexual stuff, it turns into a constant pattern. He talks a lot about lust. “Lust may be defined as a genuine sexual desire, from which the goal of erotic love has been excluded, and in which whatever tends towards that goal, tenderness, intimacy, fidelity, dependences, is curtailed or obstructed” (Scruton, 225). Those feelings you get afterwards just end up embarrassing yourself in the end. I agree with him on lust especially, you will end up feeling shameful in what you have done if there isn’t any love or connection there. I like his beliefs on sexual relationships through it all, I think the way he does about this certain