Alexander Pruss's Blog

If casual sex is permissible, so is premarital sex. Now, on a view on which premarital sex is permissible, marriage is a complex normat...

Rational decision theory predicts that decreasing the riskiness of a activity will tend to increase the prevalence and degree of risky a...

What does a couple have to validly promise each other, explicitly or implicitly, in order for those promises, when appropriately ratified ...

The following policy pattern is common.  There is a risky behavior which a portion of a target population engages in.  There is no consensus...

I will give an argument that many people in our society are operating with a concept of marriage that differs in a central way fr...

Let us suppose, to see where this false assumption leads us, that premarital sex were morally permissible. Let us also suppose ...