Homework 14--6 points--(Due 11/2 by 5:00 PM)

Part 1—Sexual Commitment
1. What is difference between the ways you love your dog, your best friend, your mother, and your spouse?
2. Should you marry your best friend and become lovers or marry your lover and develop friendship? Why?
3. What is the difference between a covenant and a contract?
4. Why do you think almost every major religious tradition in history has so strongly opposed divorce?
5. What is the purpose of dating? What things interfere with this purpose?
6. What are the advantages of dating and selecting a spouse the way we do it in America?
7. What are the problems with dating and selecting a spouse the way we do it in America?
8. Why would someone say people should get married instead of just living together?
9. Why would someone say people should just live together instead of getting married?
10. Why might someone favor arranged marriages?
11. Why might someone oppose arranged marriages?
12. What is the purpose(s) of sexual intercourse?
13. Ignoring unwanted pregnancy and disease, are there any other reasons to wait until marriage to have sex?
14. Is sexual behavior a significant human endeavor? Why do you say so?
15. What don’t you understand about the positions of people who disagree with you on these issues?

Part 2—Sexual Fantasy
1. Why might someone argue that looking at pornography is an excellent thing to do?
2. Why might someone argue that looking at pornography is not an excellent thing to do?
3. Is looking at pornography when you are married a form of adultery?
4. Is looking at pornography when you are single a form of pre-marital sex?
5. Is it wrong to use looks for the purpose of attracting a spouse? Why?
6. Is it wrong to consider looks in selecting a spouse? Why?
7. Why might people find make-up, revealing clothing, and pornography to be similar?
8. If men tend to be sexually stimulated by visual things, what tends to stimulate women sexually?
9. Why might someone argue that having sexual fantasies is a good thing?
10. Why might someone argue that having sexual fantasies is a bad thing?
11. Why might someone say that masturbation is a good thing?
12. Why might someone say that masturbation is a bad thing?
13. What don’t you understand about the position of people who disagree with you on these issue?

Part 3—Gender
1. Why do genders exist? What purpose do they serve?
2. If you believe in God, does God have a purpose in making each person of a particular gender? What?
3. What things are women better at generally than men?
4. What things are men better at generally than women?
5. Should authority and leadership always be given to the most competent person?
6. What standards or expectations are different regarding men and women?
7. How is the ideal woman as portrayed by modern media different from the ideal woman as imagined 60 years ago?
8. How are the contributions to parenting different and similar for mothers and fathers?
9. What is the moral value of choosing to stay at home and be a mother full time?
10. Why might some people say that having mothers go to work outside the home is a bad idea?
11. Why might some people say that having mothers go to work outside the home is a good idea?
12. What are the ideal features of a family structure for providing the needs of children?
13. How is the attitude toward men as portrayed by modern media different from the attitude toward men 60 years ago?
14. Is there anything men can do which is as important as creating a life?
15. Who has more power in the modern world: women or men? Why?

Part 4—Contraception
1. What is the purpose of medicine?
2. If there were a medication which people took in order to make them temporarily blind, why would that be strange?
3. Is fertility a disease/disordered condition or a normal condition?
4. What impact does the easy availability of contraception have on adultery?
5. What impact does the easy availability of contraception have on pre-marital sex?
6. What attitude toward children and pregnancy does contraception represent?
7. What is the attitude of people who do not like children toward contraception?
8. What is the attitude of people who love promiscuity toward contraception?
9. Does contraception within a marriage foster generosity or selfishness concerning sex?
10. What impact does the easy availability of contraception have on unwanted pregnancy and abortion?
11. Why might someone argue that contraception is a cause of divorce?
12. What was the first command/blessing given in the Bible? How is this relevant to this issue?
13. What is the moral value of becoming pregnant and giving birth?
14. Is parenting a significant life endeavor that causes people to grow? How?
15. Are children better off in small (1-2 children), medium (3-4) or large (5+) families? Why?

Part 5—Homosexuality
1. Is sexual desire something you can control? Why or why not?
2. Is sexual behavior something you can control? Why or why not?
3. Sodomy is defined as any non-procreative sexual activity. (Oral sex, anal sex, masturbation, etc.) How do you morally categorize sodomy: A, B, C, or D? Why?
4. Most people accept that bestiality (sex between humans and animals) and incest (non-forced sex between close relatives) are both immoral. What makes them wrong?
5. Is the use of contraceptives morally objectionable? Why or why not?
6. What is the definition of a perversion?
7. What don’t you understand about the position of people who disagree with you on this issue?

Part 6—Abortion
1. What are the best arguments used by Pro-Life people that abortion is wrong and should be illegal?
2. What are the best arguments used by Pro-Choice people that abortion is wrong but should be legal?
3. What are the best arguments used by Pro-Abortion people that abortion is good and should be legal?
4. Do the rights of individuals depend on other people thinking you have them or not?
5. Are there limits on what we can or should do with our bodies even if no other person is involved?
6. Do you think reproduction is a fundamental part of our human design or purpose?
7. Are children a burden or a blessing? How is a society’s attitude on this question relevant here?
8. What don’t you understand about the position of people who disagree with you on this issue?