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de Graaf, Hanneke, Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Liesbeth Woertman, and Wim Meeus. "Parenting and Adolescents’ Sexual Development in Western Societies." European Psychologist 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000031.

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This review examines associations between parenting styles and the psychosexual development of adolescents. Methods and results of empirical studies of associations between parental support, control, and knowledge and the sexual behavior and sexual health of adolescents are described and evaluated. The results show that, in general, higher scores on support, control, and knowledge relate to a delay of first sexual intercourse, safer sexual practices, and higher sexual competence. Despite the vast amount of literature on this subject, the majority of these studies focus on single dimensions of parenting and unidirectional parenting influences. This review generates hypotheses regarding interactions of different parenting styles and reciprocal associations between parents and their children. There is a need for more dynamic, dialectical studies of parenting, and children’s sexual development.
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Dobson, F. Stephen, and John D. Wigginton. "Environmental influences on the sexual dimorphism in body size of western bobcats." Oecologia 108, no. 4 (December 1996): 610–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00329033.

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Kempińska, Urszula, and Mykola Rudenko. "Sexual culture of students in the educational space of higher education in Poland and Ukraine - research message." International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies 6, no. 1 (June 24, 2019): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.2876.

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One of the tasks of preventive medicine as part of sexual prophylaxis is to improve sexual culture. Sexual culture is the entirety of sexual life of a society that origins from magic, religion and ideology in its aesthetic, emotional, family and social manifestations. It permeates art, affects the law, creates its own myths, models of love, ars amandi, norms and customs serving as social rituals. The moral transformations taking place in all countries of the Western cultural area are manifested first of all by the loosening of traditional norms regulating sexual intercourse. Increasingly, researchers sensitize adults to the growing popularity of the so-called orgiastic sex, in which the escalation of sexual stimuli (influenced by alcohol and/or drugs) is associated with the lack of ethical standards and principles, which causes the preference of various atypical (eg. group sex) and deviant forms of sexual activity (eg. sadistic sex). The aim of the research presented in this study was to get to know the sexual culture of Polish and Ukrainian students. Research problems have focused on the following questions: What does the sexual culture mean for the respondents? How many times have the respondents betrayed their partner? How often do the respondents talk to their partners about sexual needs?
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Fulmer, Bachman, Sarah Fulmer, and Zeynep Can Ozer. "TrustUS: Cultural Influences on Ethical Decision Making." Journal of Business Ethics Education 16 (2019): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jbee20191612.

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This case study focuses on how divergent cultural norms can impact ethical decisionmaking between a superior and subordinate in a high-pressure workplace. In order to ensure that today’s business students (and tomorrow’s business leaders) adhere to the highest standards of ethical conduct in an international and multicultural environment, it is imperative they recognize and respond appropriately to different cultural views of ethics. In the accompanying case, Jane, a Chinese national living and working in the United States, encounters multiple ethical dilemmas during her employment at TrustUS. Readers are introduced to important cultural factors that differ between Eastern and Western societies (such as Power Distance and Collectivism) and are asked to apply these concepts to gain insight into how cultural background might influence the ethical decision making of a professional in a managerial accounting context.
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De Bruijne, A. L. Th. "Contouren van een christelijke seksuele ethiek." Theologia Reformata 62, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 349–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/5dc3e87a60efe.

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This essay outlines the contours for Christian sexual ethics in the context of late modern concept of ‘sexuality’ and the state of affairs in current Western culture. On theological-anthropological grounds the essay distinguishes between sex and eros and proposes a definition of sexuality; basic biblical-theological themes point to a Christological-eschatological approach, including a plea for ascetism and sexual selfdiscipline. The essay then discusses a number of practical-ethical topics, including sexuality in marriage, cohabitation, masturbation, transgenderism and homosexuality.
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Godoy, Eric S. "Sympathy for Cecil: using political ecology, ecofeminism, and animal ethics to understand western attitudes toward trophy hunting." Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (August 8, 2020): 759–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23526.

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This article draws from political ecology, animal ethics, and ecofeminism to examine sympathy, expressed by record-breaking donation from North Americans, for the death of Cecil the Lion. Sympathy is disclosive insofar as it reveals, relies upon, and reinforces different forms of sexual, racial, and neocolonial domination; especially when western sympathy remains ignorant of the politics and histories of the power relations that shape attitudes toward non-human animals and their status as members in a moral community. When does nature appear as something to take care of rather than take care against?Keywords: sympathy, animal ethics, ecofeminism, big-game hunting, wildlife conservation, Cecil the Lion
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Wigginton, John D., and F. Stephen Dobson. "Environmental influences on geographic variation in body size of western bobcats." Canadian Journal of Zoology 77, no. 5 (October 1, 1999): 802–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z99-037.

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Hypotheses that explain geographic variation in body size were examined using cranial measurements of 950 bobcats (Lynx rufus) from western North America. Bobcats were divided into 25 geographic localities of similar habitats and landform (based on ecoregions). Principal component analyses were used to derive a single estimate of size from scores on the first principal component. Males and females were examined separately, because they were significantly dimorphic in body size and because sex and locality exhibited a significant interaction. We expected that female body size would best reflect environmental influences, because male size may be influenced by sexual selection. We found significant geographic variation in bobcat body size, with about 44% of the variation in males and 47% of the variation in females accounted for by comparison among the localities. We also found that variation in body size was associated with Bergmann's rule, as indicated by significant multiple regression of body size of males (R2 = 0.426) and females (R2 = 0.480) on latitude and elevation. Using correlation and regression analyses, we examined the association of body size with selected environmental variables that represent the classical physiological explanation of Bergmann's rule, James' moisture-humidity modification of Bergmann's rule, Rosenzweig's productivity hypothesis, and Boyce's seasonality hypothesis. Only the productivity hypothesis was not supported. The relative strengths of associations suggested, however, that James' modification was better supported than the classical explanation for Bergmann's rule. Path analyses permitted further discrimination of hypotheses, and only the seasonality hypothesis received significant support. As expected, this support was only evident for females. Path analysis may provide a tool for evaluating relative strengths of competing but correlated explanations of geographic variation.
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Lim, Megan S. C., Spring Cooper, Larissa Lewis, Kath Albury, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Deborah Bateson, Melissa Kang, and S. Rachel Skinner. "Prospective mixed methods study of online and offline social networks and the development of sexual agency in adolescence: the Social Networks and Agency Project (SNAP) protocol." BMJ Open 9, no. 5 (May 17, 2019): e024329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024329.

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IntroductionSocial media may play a role in adolescent sexual development. The limited research on social media use and sexual development has found both positive and negative influences. The focus of this study is on sexual agency: a positive sexual outcome. This paper describes the protocol for the Social Networks and Agency Project (SNAP) study which aims to examine the relationship between online and offline social networks and the development of healthy relationships and sexual agency in adolescence.Methods and analysisThe SNAP study is a mixed methods interdisciplinary longitudinal study. Over an 18-month period, adolescents aged 15–17 years at recruitment complete three questionnaires (including demographics, sexual behaviour, sexual agency and social networks); three in-depth interviews; and fortnightly online diaries describing their sexual behaviour and snapshots of their social networks that week. Longitudinal analyses will be used to describe changes in sexual behaviour and experiences over time, sexual agency, social media use, and social network patterns. Social network analysis will be used to capture relational data from which we will be able to construct sociograms from the respondent’s perspective. Interview data will be analysed both in relation to emergent themes (deploying a grounded theory approach), and from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This mixed method analysis will allow for comparisons across quantitative and qualitative data, for consistency and differences, and will enhance the robustness of data interpretation and conclusions drawn, as multiple data sources are triangulated.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was granted by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee and the Family Planning New South Wales Ethics Committee. The study will provide comprehensive, prospective information on the social and sexual development of adolescents in the age of social media and findings will be disseminated through conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications.
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Samura, Maximilianus Dasril, and Cempaka Sari. "ANALISIS PENGARUH MEDIA INTERNET TERHADAP PERILAKU PENYIMPANGAN SEKSUAL PADA REMAJA DI SMP NEGERI 4 TEBING TINGGI." Jurnal Penelitian Kebidanan & Kespro 2, no. 1 (October 31, 2019): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.36656/jpk2r.v2i1.110.

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The progress of the application of internet media technology among teenagers makes teenagersspend a lot of time useless, so that few teenagers have experience changes in communication,ethics, and behavior, even increasing sexual deviance behavior. The purpose of this study was todetermine the effect of internet media on sexual deviance behavior in adolescents of SMP Negeri 4Tebing Tinggi in 2019. This type of research uses a cross-sectional method. The population in thisstudy was 90 students. The results show that there is an influence on the frequency of internetmedia usage on adolescent sexual deviation behavior. There is an effect of the duration of internetmedia usage on adolescent sexual deviation behavior. There is the influence of internet mediaaccess used on adolescent sexual deviation behavior, and the variable that most influences thebehavior of adolescent sexual deviation is the variable frequency of using internet media withprevalency ratio 3.501. It expected that adolescents do not use the facilities and internet mediatheir have for pornography. Besides, teenagers should be positive things in their spare time, suchas taking school extracurricular activities, exercising, or did good hobbies to avoid deviantbehavior.
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Marchenko, O. V. "Spiritual priorities of Orthodox business ethics: the contemporary Ukrainian context." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 27-28 (November 11, 2003): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2003.27-28.1462.

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The present state of our spirituality is a consequence of the influences of particular circumstances of life. Undoubtedly, the general changes in the social, political and economic orientations of society significantly influence the nature of the processes taking place in the spiritual sphere. The transition to the rails of market reforms, the affirmation of the principle of pragmatism as a kind of measure of the effectiveness of human life, the priority of economic values ​​over others, including spiritual values, leads to a deepening crisis of spirituality, crisis of man. And in this connection M. Berdyaev's words appearing to warn him against uncritical perception of the values ​​of Western civilization, which, incidentally, is quite characteristic of modern Ukrainian society, appear to be quite correct: the loss of the spiritual center. " And further: “The autonomy of economic life led to its dominance over the entire life of human communities. Mammonism has become the defining force of the age. ”
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sexual ethics – Western influences"

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Olson, Amanda J. "Talk about "hooking up" how college students' accounts of "hooking up" in social networks influences engaging in risky sexual behavior /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-08062009-095359/.

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"Breaking the silence: a post-colonial discourse on sexual desire in Christian community." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890294.

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Ng Chin Pang.
Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-91).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgments --- p.i
Abstract --- p.iii
Chapter Chapter1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter2 --- Theories on Sex and the Emergence of Sexual Identity --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- "Origins and Development on the Concept of Sex in the ""Western"" World"
Chapter 2.1.1 --- Augustine's Notion on Sexual Desire
Chapter 2.1.2 --- Protestant Theology of Sex
Chapter 2.1.3 --- "Emergence of ""Western"" Sexual Identity"
Chapter 2.2 --- The Concept of Sexual Desire in China
Chapter 2.2.1 --- The Discourse of Sexual Desire in Late Imperial China
Chapter 2.2.2 --- Transformation of Sexual Identity in Modern China: Male Homosexuality as the Verdict
Chapter Chapter3 --- Queer Theory- a Post-colonial Perspective --- p.38
Chapter 3.1 --- Postcolonial Theory as a source of Theology Discourse
Chapter 3.1.1 --- From Colonialism to Post-colonialism
Chapter 3.1.2 --- Building a Hybridized Sexual Ethics
Chapter 3.2 --- Queer Theory as a Source of Theology Discourse
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Queer Theory and Queer Politics
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Queering the Socially Constructed Sexual Identities
Chapter Chapter4 --- A Post-colonial Sexual Theology --- p.59
Chapter 4.1 --- The Modes of Discourse
Chapter 4.1.1 --- Transgressive Metaphors
Chapter 4.1.2 --- Hybrid Sexual Theologies
Chapter 4.2 --- A New Framework about Sexual Desire
Chapter 4.2.1 --- Building our Relations in Erotic Desire
Chapter 4.2.2 --- Beyond Sexuality and Spirituality Dichotomy
Chapter 4.3 --- Conclusion: Building an Inclusive Community
Bibliography --- p.85
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Books on the topic "Sexual ethics – Western influences"

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Greek ways: How the Greeks created western civilization. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000.

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Wan Ming Zhong xi xing lun li de xiang yu: Yi Limadou "Tian zhu shi yi" he Pangdiwo "Qi ke" wei zhong xin. Guangzhou Shi: Guangdong jiao yu chu ban she, 2003.

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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012.

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translator, Ran Amalia, ed. Erotic japonisme: The influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western art. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2014.

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Sex in the Western world: The development of attitudes and behaviour. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991.

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Xi fang lun li xue zai Zhongguo de chuan bo ji ying xiang. Tianjin: Nan kai da xue chu ban she, 2008.

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Seiyō shisō no Nihon-teki tenkai: Fukuzawa Yukichi kara Jon Rōruzu made. Tōkyō: Keiō Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai, 2002.

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Reason and sexuality in western thought. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005.

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The origins of sex: A history of the first sexual revolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. The origins of sex: A history of the first sexual revolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Orr, Lesley. "Late Twentieth-Century Controversies in Sexual Ethics, Gender, and Ordination." In The History of Scottish Theology, Volume III, 317–32. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759355.003.0023.

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During the second half of the twentieth century, a seismic shift in outlook, norms, behaviours, and laws transformed Western societies, particularly in relation to sexuality and gender relations. These changes were characterized and facilitated by escalating rejection of dominant sources of moral authority, including organized religion. This chapter considers the Church of Scotland’s response to the ‘permissive society’. It attempted to grapple theologically with questions concerning marriage and divorce, homosexuality, and women’s ordination, confronted unavoidably with profound questions concerning gender, power, and sexuality. These debates generated controversy and division as the moral consensus fractured. Fault lines opened up between conservatives who defended the validity of Christian moral certainties, and others who embraced more liberal and contextual interpretations of Scripture and tradition. Previously silenced or subordinated voices emerged, challenging but failing to provoke radical institutional change at a time of rapid declension in the status and cultural influence of the national Church.
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N. Elwood, William, Veronica L. Irvin, Benmei Liu, Richard Lee, and Nancy Breen. "Psychological Health Influences of Legal-Marriage and -Partnerships on Same-Sex Couples." In Sexual Ethics [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.90249.

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Ndasi, Darlene, and Kwadwo Adusei-Asante. "Experiences of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Professionals Working with Migrant Women Living with Female Genital Cutting in Western Australia." In Sexual Ethics [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93353.

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Alazmi, Terki. "The Relationship between Islamic Religion and Ethical Leadership." In Human Rights and Ethics, 995–1008. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch054.

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Empirical research on how Islam influences leaders' behaviours and business practices is not easily available. The separation of church and state has never been an Islamic precept; therefore, this paper investigates how Islamic religion affects ethical leadership amongst Kuwait's private sector leaders. Using a constructionist approach within which 40 leaders from Kuwaiti private sector organisations were interviewed, in the banking, investment, real estate and services sectors. The study provides important insights into the concepts related to good and ethical leadership in a non-Western environment and enriches our knowledge in this sector of the management field.
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McLelland, Mark. "Takahashi Tetsu and Popular Sexology in Early Postwar Japan, 1945–1970." In Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520293373.003.0010.

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This chapter examines popular sexology in Japan during the period 1945–1970 by focusing on the career of Takahashi Tetsu, one of the country's most prominent sexual scientists in the post-World War II era. Takahashi promulgated a liberal version of Freudianism, particularly his acceptance of the ubiquity of “sexual perversity,” and collected, published, and thereby helped popularize a wide variety of information about sexuality. After providing an overview of Takahashi's prewar influences and activities, the chapter considers the spread of sexological knowledge during the time of Occupation (1945–1952). It then shows how Takahashi mobilized the works of Alfred C. Kinsey and other Western sexual scientists in the early 1950s and attempted to synthesize them with what he saw as an indigenous Japanese approach. It concludes with a discussion of Takahashi's legacy in the field of sexual science.
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Parreñas Shimizu, Celine. "(Rich) White Women, (Poor) Brown Men, and Sexual Settings." In The Proximity of Other Skins, 42–86. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865856.003.0002.

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This chapter addresses recent representations of Western white women (with money) from the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom and their relationships with African and Asian men (without money) against several backdrops: sex tourism in the Caribbean, the low-wage labor market for undocumented immigrants in the United States, and the US fertility industry. Interrogating the interlocking relationship between political and libidinal economies, the chapter explores how these films frame differing freedoms and choices across gender, race, and class in scenes of sexual intimacy facilitated by a monetary transaction. In the process, it formulates the term “sexual setting” to identify how social, historical, and other contexts never subside but inform the erotics and pleasures of intimate bodily entanglements in the movies. In illustrating how the structural inequality of race, socioeconomics, and globalization infuse sexual scenes, the chapter shows how to assess the ethics of sexual entanglements.
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Smith, R. Scott. "Rethinking the Fact-Value Split." In Open Government, 1996–2013. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9860-2.ch092.

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Multicultural, western societies are quite secular, and the secular-sacred divide has been shaped by the fact-value split. But, the fact-value split also influences many other cultures, including in Latin and South America and East Asia. On it, science yields knowledge, but religion and ethics yield opinions and values. Closely related is the public-private split: governments should act on public reasons (ones based on science), and not private ones (ones based on religious and ethical views). Such science is methodologically naturalistic, bracketing anything supernatural or non-physical. This science usually presupposes ontological naturalism: what exists is natural, or physical. But, the author will contend the fact-value split is mistaken; on naturalism, humans cannot have knowledge. At best, people only have interpretations, even in science. However, the author also will argue that people can have moral and religious knowledge. If so, there will be many practical implications for public policy and religious practice.
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Collins Vacek S.J., Edward. "Evolution of Catholic Marriage Morality in the Twentieth Century from a Baby-Making Contract to a Love-Making Covenant Part I: Code of Cannon Law to Vatican II." In Bioethics [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95101.

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Sexual ethics in the West has been evolving, in practice and in theory, over the last century. The official Catholic Church teaching was challenged by many Christian churches and by the changing culture of the West. The Vatican insisted that no change could be made in its timeless truths. Nevertheless, each challenge required ever more sophisticated and convoluted arguments. The impetus for change came through the Western shift from seeing sexual activity as a procreative act toward viewing it as a way for husbands and wives (and gradually also any consenting adult) to express and deepen love. The Second Vatican Council accepted this new view, but subsequently the official teaching became more strict, insisting that both procreation and marital love-making must be present. The teaching of Pope Paul VI prohibiting contraception was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back for many Catholics. They abandoned the official teaching, recognizing that it was the new personalist view itself that complicated the meaning of marriage. Subsequently, the Canon Law tried reestablish the validity of loveless sex in marriage–the dominant view through the centuries. That move was rejected.
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Olyan, Saul M. "Introduction." In Friendship in the Hebrew Bible. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300182682.003.0001.

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What is friendship? At first blush, the answer seems obvious: Friendship is a voluntary association between people who enjoy one another’s company and care, at least to some degree, about one another’s welfare. But this definition, which would probably elicit few objections from most present-day Europeans and North Americans, does not address a number of contested issues in contemporary Western friendship. For example, is it possible for men and women to be friends? Must friends be peers in every respect, or is there room for age differences, or inequality of income, social status, or power? Can parents and children be friends? Might sexual relations play a role in friendship? Does friendship necessarily involve emotional intimacy? Are there contrasting male and female, gay and straight, working-class and middle-class friendship patterns? Each of these questions would very likely stimulate debate among the people I know, and the answers would probably depend on some combination of the generation, gender, sexual orientation, class, and cultural background of the respondent. Apart from agreeing that friends associate voluntarily, like one another, and take an interest in one another’s well-being, there might not be much consensus among my friends, neighbors, colleagues, students, and family members about the contested aspects of friendship that I have mentioned. Were we to go beyond speculation about the views of the people I encounter in my life, and conduct research on the beliefs about friendship held by a larger population of contemporary North Americans or other Westerners, I would expect to find even less agreement about what constitutes friendship. In short, friendship as we know it in contemporary Europe and North America is shaped by a variety of socio-cultural influences and ...
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