Una verdad simulada

Its hard to imagine a prose such as this on sexual ethics was written more than 70 years back. The essay on “Sexual Ethics” by Bertland Russell is an excellent read. The final paragraph just sums it best:

[I]t would be well if men and women could remember […] to practise the ordinary virtues of tolerance, kindness, truthfulness, and justice. Those who, by conventional standards, are sexually virtuous, too often consider themselves thereby absolved from behaving like decent human beings. Most moralists have been so obsessed by sex that they have laid much too little emphasis on other more socially useful kinds of ethically commendable conduct.

As they say, what consenting adults do in their own bedroom is nobody else’s business.

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