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Sex in Islam and other worldviews: Towards a Global Sexual Ethos
Sex in Islam and other worldviews Towards a Global Sexual Ethos Author:Derek Kelly Sex in Islam and other world Religions, Towards a Global Ethos of Human Sexual Expression describes the views of six major religions or worldviews真真Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Paganism, and Taoism真真concerning human sexual expression, and advocates a new global sexual ethos based on Paganism and science that rejects the restricti... more »ons placed on sexual expression by the other five worldviews. The author suggests that five of the worldviews considered here真真Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Taoism真真were probably evolutionary mistakes that should be rejected. To further a global sexual ethos, he argues that we need a definition of the family that goes beyond that found in the UN真真s Declaration of Human Rights, the absolute equality of women, universal acceptance of same-sex relations, elimination of genital mutilation of both sexes, legalization of prostitution, education in auto-sexuality and widespread dissemination of contra-infectives.« less