Word: mutually
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...question is, does Harvey endorse the extremely broad prohibitions on "recreational" sexual activity of Finnis, Grisez and company. For them, all non-procreative, recreational sex amounts to the mere instrumentalization of bodies for mutual use and pleasure, all are the moral equivalent of mutual masturbation: not only valueless but distractions from real human goods. With a surprising broadmindedness, the contemporary natural lawyers who have written extensively on sexuality regard homosexual acts as the moral equivalent of contracepted sex in marriage. Does Harvey agree...
...wrongfulness of gay sex is merely its "self-disintegrity:" the purported failure to act in a way that is consistent with a desire for the real goods that stable homosexual couples may share in common, goods such as friendship and mutual helping. Real goods can be embodied in homosexual friendships, but sex only distracts from them. When sex is chosen it is chosen as a source of "subjective satisfactions" through the "use [and] instrumentalization of each other's bodies...
...college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal that these two are bound to fall for each other inthe...
This summer's best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, by Dr. Deepak Chopra, recommends meditation, as does Bill Moyers' book Healing and the Mind. The stress clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center uses meditation, and the Mutual of Omaha insurance company reimburses policyholders for meditation courses...
...opposed to sterile homosexual ones. It has been pointed out that homosexuals are, in fact, biologically capable of producing children. But a homosexual couple is simply incapable of producing a child together. Insofar as sexual love is more than a release of libidinal tension, more even than an mutual exchange of pleasure, it finds its goal in the mutual creation of a child. Homoerotic sexual release is psychologically frustrated precisely because homosexual love cannot reproduce itself...