Sexual Ethics
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چکیده
F OR SOME YEARS NOW IT HAS BEEN clear to scholars in the field that moral theology cannot ignore the findings of psychology any more than it can ignore the findings of the other human sciences. 1 Nowhere has this realization mattered more than in the field of sexual ethics where, even in the quite recent past, reason often gave way to the pressure of taboos, feelings of dirtiness and unbending laws. One of the notable developments of recent times has been the tendency to dig out those unreasonable and psychologically damaging elements. Inevitably, this has involved a certain amount of looking back. We shall therefore begin our review of recent developments with a brief excursion into this new critical way of looking at the old.
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