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Most discussions of sexual morality begin with feelings, preferences, harm, or consent. This video starts somewhere else: reason.

Since reason is a truth-tracking practice that authorizes actions as general rules rather than private exceptions, it must operate under certain constraints. Some patterns of action cannot be justified because their general permissibility would undermine the very conditions that make rational agency possible.

In earlier videos, we identified five such constraints on reason:
normative authority, respect for truth, temporal agency, effort-outcome reliability, and public norm stabilization.
In this video, we examine a sixth constraint and show why sexual behavior is necessarily subject to rational limits.

We analyze why reason cannot authorize:
• sexual coercion
• adultery
• abandonment of dependents
• incest
• bestiality
• same-sex sexual relations

The conclusion follows from the requirements for cultivating future rational agents, stabilizing responsibility, transmitting norms, and preserving the coordination that reason depends on.

Timestamps:
0:00 -- Constraints on reason
1:55 -- Why reason puts constraints on sexual behavior
3:11 -- Sexual coercion (rape)
3:42 -- Adultery
5:55 -- Dependency abandonment (child neglect)
6:55 -- Incest
9:22 -- Bestiality
10:51 -- Same-sex sexual relations
11:07 -- Summary

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