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Page 1 2 of 3 DOCUMENTS Copyright (c) 1997 The University of Notre Dame The American Journal of Jurisprudence 1997 42 Am. J. Juris. 97 LENGTH: 14666 words ARTICLE: Forum: Sexual Morality and the Possibility of Same-Sex Marriage: THE GOOD OF MARRIAGE AND THE MORALITY OF SEXUAL RELATIONS: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS NAME: John Finnis LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... Aquinas organized his account of the morality of sexual relations around the good of marriage. ... In this case the pleasure-driven de-personalizing and de-maritalizing has gone so far that ones sex acts, even though they are in fact with ones spouse, are a kind of adultery, a serious violation of the good of marriage. ... The massive misunderstanding of Aquinas on sexual pleasure and on the goods which give reason for marital intercourse is tightly linked with another misunderstanding, which provides a primary and recurring theme of Koppelmans article. ... The concept of self-giving, as used in this passage, is obviously closely related to Aquinas concept of marital fides as a positive motive for bodily union in marital intercourse: devotedness to this unique spouse and commitment to this exclusive community and sharing of life intended to be ended only by death. ... Such a spouse is conditionally willing to engage in this sex act with someone not his or her spouse. ... TEXT: [*97] I Aquinas organized his account of the morality of sexual relations around the good of marriage. The good of marriage is one of the basic human goods to which human choice and action are directed by the first principles of practical reason. n1 Sex acts n2 are immoral when they are [*98] against the go