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    All uses of one's capacity for intentional sexual satisfa... — Carmelics
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    All uses of one's capacity for intentional sexual satisfaction must be reserved to marriage, and within marriage to truly marital intercourse.

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    • 1.Unless such reservation is regarded as required, one's stance toward human sex acts is contra bonum matrimonii.
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    • 2.A stance that is contra bonum matrimonii is unreasonable because it cannot coherently maintain that marital intercourse enables spouses to actualize and experience their fides and their marriage.
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    • 3.The actualization of fides through marital intercourse is essential to the flourishing of marriage, children, and the wider community.
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    • 1.Aristotelian flourishing (eudaimonia) is indexed to the capacities and circumstances of individual persons, not a single normative life-pattern.
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    • 2.Celibate, widowed, or non-married persons can actualize the virtues of fidelity, temperance, and community contribution through non-marital forms of loving commitment.
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    • 3.Therefore, reserving sexual satisfaction to marriage conflates one historically contingent instantiation of flourishing with the universal conditions for it.
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    • 1.John Stuart Mill and later Martha Nussbaum argue that harm-based constraints on conduct require demonstrable injury to others, not merely symbolic dissonance with an institution.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's premise P2 establishes incoherence only relative to the internal logic of Thomistic natural law, which is itself a contested metaethical framework.
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    • 3.A normative claim that is valid only within a particular theological metaphysics cannot serve as a binding rational constraint in pluralist moral philosophy without independent secular justification.
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    Consequently the kind of wrongful sexual choice most often considered by Aquinas is engaging in intercourse with one’s spouse without fides, because one either (i) is thinking of one’s spouse in the way one would think of a prostitute, or (significantly worse) (ii) would be willing to have sex with somebody else if some other attractive person were to be available. Such depersonalized sex acts are instances of willing against the good of marriage (contra bonum matrimonii). This reiterated analys
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    Therefore, reserving sexual satisfaction to marriage conflates one historically ...
    Unless such reservation is regarded as required, one's stance toward human sex a...
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