Sunday, December 20, 2009

Author of Radical Sex Ethics Book Issues Challenge to the Religious Right

The columnist of a anew appear book on animal belief has gone above criticizing the “puritanical moralists” of the religious right. He wants to claiming them to contiguous debates on academy campuses and radio programs.

Boston, MA -- The columnist of a anew appear book on animal belief has gone above criticizing the “puritanical moralists” of the religious right. He wants to claiming them to contiguous debates on academy campuses and radio programs.

Desmond Ravenstone wrote “The Principled Libertine: The Ethical Case for Sexual & Erotic Freedom” (published by Lulu Press) as a acknowledgment to the angle of amusing conservatives who ambition to advance a “traditional” chastity on animal matters.

“When I apprehend their writings or apprehend one of them speak,” Ravenstone says, “it doesn’t complete at all like an ethical discourse. It sounds like a simplistic set of rules to be imposed from above. If we ambition a absolute altercation about animal belief in this country, again we charge to move above whether this or that action is to be permitted, and alpha talking about the ambience in which we accurate our corresponding sexualities.”

“The Principled Libertine” is absolutely controversial, arresting not alone same-sex alliance and the decriminalization of prostitution, but even sadomasochism and non-monogamous relationships. Ravenstone advocates that ethics such as respect, accord and the amusement of amusement should serve as the base for chief what is adapted and when.

Most importantly, Ravenstone insists that one does not charge to be sexually adventuresome to allotment his views. He says he would “like to see a association area the autonomous celibate, the austere traditionalist, and the coiled polyamorous bisexual can abide ancillary by side, just as teetotalers can abide with weekend beer drinkers and connoisseurs of accomplished wine.”

“People should accept the abandon to accept whether, if and how they will analyze and accurate their sexuality,” he asserts in the book’s introduction.

So why claiming associates of the religious appropriate to agitation the issue? “Because they don’t seek to actuate with facts, but appoint by force,” he replies. Ravenstone credibility to both the cause adjoin gay rights and same-sex marriage, and the advance of “abstinence-only” animal apprenticeship programs in schools as examples.

“It’s one affair if you ambition to advance abstemious codes aural your own airy community, and even to adduce it as an option. But it’s absolutely addition to apotheosize such angle as law, as the alone advantage for everyone. When you rob humans of choice, you accomplish belief impossible.”

Desmond Ravenstone has accounting added books, both album and amative fiction, and coordinates educational programs for an addition female accumulation in New England.

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