The words of the famous creed are: “Anything in sex is OK as long as no one gets hurt.” This proviso seems adequate to many otherwise thoughtful people, because they do not examine carefully the meaning of “hurt.” Given our human finitude, we do not always know who is hurt, for life is such an intricate maze that acts which seem trivial at the moment may bring injury years later. The consequences of human conduct are so far-reaching that no moral decision is even an isolated one. There are many ways in which one can be hurt, in addition to obvious physical ones.
William S. Banowsky, It’s A Playboy World, p.81
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