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The Philosophy of Sex

Contemporary Readings

ISBN-13: 9781538155370
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Edited by Raja Halwani, Edited by Jacob M. Held, Edited by Natasha McKeever, Edited by Alan Soble
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Local release date: 28/02/2022
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 640 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Philosophy [HP]Social & political philosophy [HPS]Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]

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Google Preview: 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.; 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.; 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; Google Preview content

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