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No this is not situational ethics. It's recognizing that ethical principles sometimes conflict

This is a classic example of situational ethics.

You think that there is a compelling need for the dying to experience pleasures like sex at least once before leaving the earth, but that's because everything you've got is invested in this life. Yet this life is only given us to test us before the next one (Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has entered into the heart of man all that God has prepared for those who love Him). You would sacrifice the temporal for the eternal. Tell me, what good was this cheap fling for the boy now that he's dead?

You would sacrifice the temporal for the eternal.

...make that eternal for the temporal. I've yet to sleep :o(

Ok if you don't believe in the bizarre entity you worship many would agree that individuals should be able to pursue their own happiness in any manner they choose that doesn't violate the rights of others or cause excessive damage to themselves. There was no harm done here and I think it's

Simply put, I doubt any just God would condemn the kid for what he did. But then again you don't believe in a just God.