Everything I know about sexual immorality I learned from a patriarch. Have you ever heard the song by Frank Sinatra, My way? When I was growing up that’s the way we did everything, my father’s way. He was the ultimate authority. We were never offered choices; other than his and we were never taught there were any opportunities, other than his. How does someone who grows up in this environment make rational principled choices that aren’t somehow compromised? Finding it 'normal' to use other people, robbing another of their liberties? Particularly within the boundaries of sexual relationships. Can you learn how to make right choices by learning principles that teach them all the wrong ways? I believe how we are raised has a profound impact on our sexual …show more content…
Feminists have adopted the Kantian ethic of not treating a person as a mere means with their focus on objectification within sexual relations. Lina Papadaki's article, "What is Objectification?" gives a great overview of the origins of this premise. From Kant to the various feminist perspectives she investigates both the narrow and the broad views. The conclusion then in terms of identifying objectification is that the necessary and sufficient condition to treating a person as an object is to deny their humanity. But determining when this is happening to someone is what is what makes objectification difficult. Even within Martha Nussbaum's (22) list of 7 identifiable features: instrumentality, denial of autonomy, inertness, fungibility, violability, ownership and denial of subjectivity, we still come up short in how to determine if a persons humanity has been denied unless of course there is physical harm. And the reason for this is because in some cases objectification can be either unintentional or at times can be a positive aspect of a sexual