Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sexual ethics

  • Bestiality, Rape, and Consent

    Bestiality in the sense relevant here is sexual intercourse of humans with lower animals. Is there anything morally wrong with it? Some say that there is because lower animals cannot be consensual partners in bestial relations.  Here is one form the argument might take.  Argument from consent against bestiality  1) It is morally wrong to…