One night poll

[ewx]

Apropos of this article.

[Poll #701581]

Notes:

• If you're in a monogamous relationship then answer as if you were not - i.e. I'm asking about your opinion about the activity in general not about your current situation.
• "Morally wrong for everybody" means you think nobody should do it. "Morally wrong for you but OK for other people" means you'd think you were being bad if you did it but wouldn't necessarily think the same of someone else doing it. "OK for everybody" means you wouldn't think anyone, including yourself, was being bad for it (even if they themselves would).
• You can think it's distateful, or indication of something missing, without necessarily also thinking it's wrong.

Comments

[liv]

It does depend what you mean by casual sex. There are certain (consensual, non-cheating) sexual situations I would consider morally wrong for me, but not all sex outside loving, committed, monogamous relationships comes into that category. So I suppose I'm answering by defining casual as really casual, the pick up a stranger in a club kind of sex.

And as for how I get to morally wrong for me but not morally wrong for others, my moral objection to casual sex is for indirect reasons. It's in more or less the same space as eating pork. I do not want to eat pork, and the reason for that is definitely a moral one, but that doesn't mean I have a problem with other people eating pork. I'm holding to a standard of sexual morality, but it's a very personal standard, it's about where I am in relation to my religious tradition. It's not something that I would expect other moral people to come to the same conclusions about (and that goes for other Jewish people as well as for the rest of the world for whom this particular aspect of the question is irrelevant).