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

    Therefore, reserving sexual satisfaction to marriage conflates one historically contingent instantiation of flourishing with the universal conditions for it.

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    • 1.Human flourishing encompasses diverse expressions across cultures and historical periods, not uniform blueprints.
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    • 2.Sexual satisfaction contributes to wellbeing through various contexts; restricting it to one institutional form is arbitrary.
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    • 3.Confusing culturally-specific practices with universal requirements limits human potential and ignores lived experience.
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    • 1.Some universal human goods (trust, commitment, vulnerability) may correlate with marriage structures regardless of historical variation.
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    • 2.Distinguishing contingent forms from their underlying functions is possible—marriage's specifics are historical, but bonding may not be.
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    • 3.The claim itself assumes a particular philosophical framework about flourishing that isn't self-evidently true.
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