Sexual autonomy, consent, and reproductive control

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    Abstract

    Claims of entitlement to safe, reliable, and accessible contraception—what I will here term reproductive control—are standardly grounded in defenses of reproductive autonomy. In this chapter, I argue for an account of entitlement of reproductive control as significantly grounded in sexual autonomy. In doing so, I revisit the question of the role of consent in the ethical evaluation of sexual encounters, focusing in particular on those encounters that are of a “dual nature” in terms of being both sexual and potentially reproductive. I show that consent is an inadequate metric with which to evaluate such sexual encounters and that we need to foreground analyses of sexual autonomy in order to properly capture what is ethically salient about sex in conditions of lack of reproductive control.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Routledge handbook of philosophy of sex and sexuality
    EditorsBrian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, Lori Watson
    Place of PublicationNew York ; London
    PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
    Chapter17
    Pages247-257
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Electronic)9781003286523, 9781032261010
    ISBN (Print)9781138370678
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022

    Publication series

    NameRoutledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    PublisherRoutledge

    Keywords

    • Sexual autonomy
    • Reproduction
    • Consent
    • Sexual Justice

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