Sexual Ethics Test

One Hundred Plus Questions

Related to Sexual Right and Wrong

Version 1.2

Personal Information

For completion by those who choose to share their test answers with the author.

Obviously you need respond to no more than you wish.

a. What is your sex?

Male.
Female.
Other. Please explain.

b. In what year were you born?

c. What level have you achieved in your formal education?

d. Are you or have you been a parent?

Yes, and the ages of my children are:
No.

e. What is your occupation?

f. What is your religion and denomination?

g. Are you or have you been a member either of the clergy or of a religious order?

Yes.
No.
Am currently in training.

h. Do you hold a leadership, service, or committee position in your religious congregation or denomination or in a religious institution?

Yes.
No.

i. How often do you participate in the worship and other activities of a religious congregation?

More than once a week on average.
Weekly, if possible.
Twelve times or more a year, but less than weekly.
Between one and eleven times a year.
Rarely or never.

j. Do you regard yourself as spiritual?

Yes, deeply so.
Yes, somewhat.
No, not very.
No, not at all.
Other. Please elaborate.

k. Are you an activist on matters of any sort relating to human sexuality?

No.
Yes. Please elaborate.

l. In which of these fields have you had formal training?

Ethics, at this level:
Human sexuality, at this level:
Medicine, at this level:
Philosophy, at this level:
Psychology, at this level:
Theology, at this level:
Another field related to sexual ethics. Please elaborate.

m. In which of these fields have you taught one or more courses?

Ethics, at this level:
Human sexuality, at this level:
Medicine, at this level:
Philosophy, at this level:
Psychology, at this level:
Theology, at this level:
Another field related to sexual ethics. Please elaborate.

n. What has been your experience with romantic love?

Never been in love.
Have been in love only once; love not reciprocated.
Have been in love only once; love reciprocated.
Have been in love with one person at a time on roughly this many occasions: ; and love was reciprocated this many times:
Have been in love with two or more people at a time on roughly this many occasions: ; love was reciprocated by only one this many times: ; love was reciprocated by more than one this many times:
Other. Please explain.

o. In terms of your own moral code and discounting mere embarrassment, are you approving of your past sexual behavior?

Yes, pretty much.
No, one or two things of which I disapprove stand out.
No, there is much of which I disapprove.
No, I disapprove of all of it.
Other. Please explain.

p. Please describe your recent sexual lifestyle.

Single and abstinent.
Single and living under vows of celibacy.
Single and engaging in casual sex with members of a different sex.
Single and engaging in casual sex with members of the same sex.
Single and engaging in casual sex with members of any sex.
In a sexually active relationship with one member of a different sex.
In a sexually active relationship with one member of the same sex.
In a heterosexual marriage with a mutual expectation of exclusive sexual access, and am abiding by that.
In a love relationship with more than one person. Please describe. (Example: We are three females, all sexual partners of one another and mutually aware. Another example: Have a female spouse and a secondary female lover, each accepting of my relationship with the other.)
Other. Please elaborate briefly, to the degree that you feel comfortable doing so.

q. Please describe your preferred sexual lifestyle.

r. According to your own moral code and discounting mere embarrassment, are you approving or disapproving of your recent sexual lifestyle?

Approving.
Disapproving.
Other. Please explain.

s. According to your own moral code, are you approving or disapproving of your preferred sexual lifestyle?

Approving.
Disapproving.
Other. Please explain.

t. Do your sexual preferences in any other aspects conflict with your morals?

Yes.
No.
Other. Please explain.

u. What is the longest that you have been in a sexually intimate relationship?

v. Have you been in a long-term sexually intimate relationship that has broken up?

Yes.
No.
Other. Please explain.

w. Of what country are you a citizen?

x. Where do you reside? Be only as specific as you feel comfortable being (or maybe a degree less specific).

y. Only if you actively wish to do so, please feel free to provide:

A name or moniker by which you can be addressed.
Your e-mail address.
Your Web url.

z. Date completed (following this pattern: 1 Jan 2000):

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First draft completed, December 21, 1998; posted, December 21, 1998; new url, January 28, 2004; last modification, December 7, 2008