Essays on Sexual Immorality

Nowadays, the United States of America sets an example of the loyalty towards homosexuality to the rest of the world, but it was not the same at the second part of the twentieth century. During the Presidency of Eisenhower, the country advocated the “American dream” and actively led the Cold War. American government considered everything strange and non-understandable including homosexuality to be a reflection of communism and a threat to traditional American values that needed to be abolished. This paper aims to discuss the reasons for Eisenhower’s hatred towards homosexuals and the ways he waged a fight with ...

In the modern world, there has been a trend to redefine the terms and acceptability associated with sexuality. This is perhaps best explicated by the presence of modern-day laws that advertently protect sexuality that is known from the basic laws of nature to be ‘unnatural’. Humanity in the contemporary world has seemingly yet very certainly so, changed the whole concept of sexuality to suit the status quo of modern-day sexuality. Additionally, there is quite a lengthy array of sexual misconduct accorded to humankind by God through the Bible, and that has apparently become a mere ‘conjecture’ to the present ...

In Parts one and Two of Volume One of Michael Foucault’s Philosophy on Sexuality, he analyses and distances himself from what he calls “Repression Hypothesis,” using our desire to analyze and investigate the “science” of our sexual behavior, our need to confess what we deem sexual immorality, and the productive nature of the relationship of sex to power and knowledge, as the key elements of his argument. A definition of “Repression Hypothesis” is necessary for us to understand further why Foucault rejects it. According to American philosopher and University of California, Berkeley professor of Philosophy, Hurbert Dryfus, and ...