With twenty-five essays, seven of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena. Topics include sexual desire, masturbation, sex on the Internet, homosexuality, asexuality, transgender and transsexual issues, rape, and promiscuity, love and sex, polyamory, transgender issues, queer issues, paraphilia, drugs and sex, objectification, BDSM, sex and technology, and sex and race. Updated and new discussion questions offer students starting points for debate in both the classroom and the bedroom.

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Preface

Introduction

1. Are We Having Sex Now or What?, Greta Christina

2. Sexual Perversion,Thomas Nagel

3. Plain Sex, Alan Goldman

4. Sex and Sexual Perversion, Robert Gray

*5. Masturbation and the Continuum of Sexual Activities, Alan Soble

*6. Love: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?, Natasha McKeever

7. Is “Loving More” Better? The Values of Polyamory, Elizabeth Brake

*8. What Is Sexual Orientation?, Robin Dembroff

*9. Sexual Orientation: What Is It?, Kathleen Stock

*10. Asexuality, Luke Brunning and Natasha McKeever

11. LGBTQ ... Z?, Kathy Rudy

*12. How to Be a Pluralist About Gender Categories, Katharine Jenkins

13. The Negotiative Theory of Gender Identity and the Limits of First-Person Authority, Burkay Ozturk

14. Racial Sexual Desires, Raja Halwani

*15. Sex and Technology: The Ethics of Virtual Connection, Neil McArthur

*16. A Realist Sexual Ethics, Micah Newman

17. Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person, Thomas Mappes

18. Sexual Use, Alan Soble

19. Dark Desires, Seiriol Morgan

20. The Harms of Consensual Sex, Robin West

21. Casual Sex, Promiscuity, and Objectification, Raja Halwani

22. Is Prostitution Harmful?, Ole Martin Moen

23. BDSM, Shaun Miller

24. Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Pedophilia, and Rape, David Benatar

25. Sexual Gifts and Sexual Duties, Alan Soble

A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Sex

*new to this edition

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<p>Summaries and study questions for each essay</p>
<p>Eight new chapters feature discussions of asexuality, transgender issues, masturbation, polyamory, and sex work</p><p>Updated bibliography offers comprehensive resource for researchers</p>

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781538155363
Publisert
2022-02-25
Utgave
8. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
1098 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
41 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
664

Biografisk notat

Raja Halwani is professor of philosophy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jacob M. Held is professor of philosophy and assistant provost for Academic Assessment and General Education at the University of Central Arkansas.

Natasha McKeever is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Leads.

Alan Soble is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans and teaches at Drexel University.