ABSTRACT

The question assumes that there is a relationship—and that a man's erotic life and behavior have some connection to the ethics of all his acts, all the choices of action that he makes, all the values expressed by all of his behavior. The question assumes that how a man acts in sex and how he acts in general are not separate spheres, but perhaps rather a unity, perhaps a continuum, perhaps fundamentally the same problem. The question assumes that each man has a character—a way he characteristically makes choices having ethical meaning—and the question assumes that his singular character is expressed and can be observed both in and out of explicitly sexual contexts.