 The answer to (1) is “Yes,” and the virtues help us see this: sexual activity can be caring, courageous, kind, generous, compassionate, or fair. Each is compatible with the activity being merely for the sake of sexual pleasure (not connected to love or other positive emotions), and each is done from a motive that is additional to, or in place of, that of sexual desire, and neither possibility subtracts from the goodness of the act. Actually, acting from sexual desire might diminish its goodness if sexual desire objectifies (see below). Thus, sexual activity can be morally evaluated as good beyond permissibility because of participant consent. Further questions concern sexual desire’s connections to the virtues and the vices (especially temperance and intemperance) and how a virtuous (and vicious) agent relates to sex, including how they sexually act and what motivates such actions (Halwani 2003: ch. 3, 2018a, 2018b: ch. 7; Morgan 2003a).