Benatar's Casual View Of Sex

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Benatar compares casual view and significant view of sex. Where casual sex is without moral understanding and that sex is wrong when it does not involve love in the right situation. Plus there needs to be an understanding between the sex and love. The case of sex without attachment supports the casual view of the lack of need for love and understanding and if not significant and doesn’t require understanding then it is something a child can consent to (Brogaard, 189). While Benatar also states on some level there is no wrongness to rape and pedophilia depending on the extremeness and nature of the circumstances as well the level it is viewed upon. And that “sexual acts between an adult and a child need not physically hurt the child….and it

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