(Re)Drawing the Lines on Marriage and Sexuality
- Title
- (Re)Drawing the Lines on Marriage and Sexuality
- Author
- Joseph E. Yi
- Keywords
- same?sex marriage; homosexual; polygamy; polyamory; zoophilia; incest
- Issue Date
- 2013-12
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Citation
- Political Quarterly, Vol.84, No.4 [2013], p497-505
- Abstract
- The campaign for same-sex marriage is animated by two, contradictory impulses: a libertarian-egalitarian strain that continually expands the boundaries of what is publicly legitimate; and a conservative one that seeks to reinforce traditional boundaries. Democratic polities would benefit from public discussion on whether to retain normative, sexual boundaries, and if so, what they should reasonably be. I outline a moderately conservative agenda that would limit public legitimacy to sexually exclusive monogamy (heterosexual or homosexual), but informally tolerate most, consenting, nonconventional sexual practices. A spirit of humility, empathy and tragedy will help us to exercise reasonable judgement as we redraw the lines on marriage and sexuality.
- URI
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12046.x/abstract?http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/45460
- ISSN
- 0032-3179
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12046.x
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- COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES[S](사회과학대학) > POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES(정치외교학과) > Articles
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