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Siðfræðingurinn Mark D. Jordan hefur skrifað áhugaverða bók sem heitir "The Ethics of Sex". Hún meðal annars skrifuð út frá mótunarhyggju og áhugaverð einmitt sem slík.

Hann segir m.a. annars þetta:

"Preaching against sex may be the most familiar Christian speech of all in our pluralistic, secular societies. People who know nothing of Christan creeds or scriptures can recite the most notorious Christian sexual prohibitations. They will be deeply confused about Trinity and Incarnation, but they will rightly report that this or that Christian group condems artificial contraception, or masturbation, or second marriages, or genital pleasures between persons of the same sex. In the public imagination, Christianity can figure as nothing more than a code of sexual conduct, a code that likes especially to elaborate prohibitions.

Christians often reply to these stereotypes by shifting the blame to cultural conditions - say, the sensationalism of news reports about religion or a (contemporary?) tendency to reduce everthing in human life to sex. These replies may have merit, but we Christians would do better not to excuse ourselves so quickly. The stereotypes about our hypocrisy over sex or our hatred of it are reactions to the ways we have chosen to talk about sex - and especially to the ways in wich we have tried to stigmatize it so as to regulate it. If sexual acts can carry many motives, so can speech about sex. The speech of Christian sexual ethics seems often to have been moved by unchristian fears and fantasies. It has served to sanction old designs rather than to announce good news. Instead of confessing yet more sexual sins, or preaching yet against them, we might want to confess the sins we have committed in presuming to teach about sex as we have. We might want to consider our bad habits, our vices, when it comes to setting forth a Christian ethics of sex"