The End of Sex: Finis or Telos?
In a widely noted book, Henry Greely has suggested that "the end of sex" is on the horizon. By this he means that sexual activity for pleasure will be increasingly disconnected from the process by which children are conceived-a result of the growing availability of what he terms Easy PGD....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 216-226 |
| RelBib Classification: | NCB Personal ethics NCF Sexual ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | In a widely noted book, Henry Greely has suggested that "the end of sex" is on the horizon. By this he means that sexual activity for pleasure will be increasingly disconnected from the process by which children are conceived-a result of the growing availability of what he terms Easy PGD. This essay explores the possibility that this sense (i.e., finis) of an "end" of sex fails to attend adequately to another sense of "end"-namely, the telos that connects human sexual activity to the birth of children. Articulating a Christian understanding of procreation, the essay notes that Easy PGD may invite us to miss the human significance of the connection between the love-giving and life-giving aspects of sexual activity. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbz004 |