Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider the consent argument for antinatalism (the view that human reproduction is morally wrong) that we shouldn’t impose great risks on p...

Philosophy Departments often try to attract undergraduates by telling them about instrumental benefits of philosophy classes: learning gener...

A colleague alerted me that Laurie Paul has a piece on deciding whether to have children (in a position where one does not have any yet). ...

Another excerpt from my forthcoming One Body book, this time from the discussion of gamete donation (challenge to the reader: find the rele...

When loving parents make decisions concerning their teenage children, they put very small, if any, weight on the physical pleasur...

Let's bracket all moral concerns, and simply suppose that the parent does not count sexual activity by her minor children as h...

This builds on a comment I made to yesterday's post, which was inspired by a remark of my wife's. If God does not exist, ...

Sexual reproduction happens like this. [note 1] The male and the female join as one biologically complete whole, and this whol...