Outline the view that there are no rights and wrongs in sexual ethics:To what extent if any is it permissible to claim that sexual ethics should be linked to religion.
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Outline the view that there are no rights and wrongs in sexual ethics: Sexual ethics encompasses a wide variety of issues including, abortion, contraception, homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, marriage, cohabitation, masturbation, sexual acts, rape, prostitution, sex with animals and pornography. A modern perspective on sexual ethics is that mutual consent of any form of sex is morally acceptable. It is seen as a positive, pleasurable and physical experience. Negotiated between the relevant parties, it falls outside religious teachings; marriage is also viewed as not being prerequisite. The freedom of the individual is valued as the most important aspect; therefore there is an increasing idea that any form of sex with mutual consent is morally acceptable. A major sexual revolution took place in the second half of the twentieth century. Our society has become saturated with sexual stimulation, in films, television, advertising and magazines. Sex has become the idol of our...

