Title:
The philosophy of sex : contemporary readings / [edited by] Alan Soble & Nicholas Power.
Author:
Soble, Alan.
Power, Nicholas (Nicholas P.)
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2008.
Call Number:
HQ12 .P47 2007
Abstract:
Thirty contemporary essays that explore philosophically, conceptually, and theologically the nature, social meanings, and morality of contemporary sexual phenomena. From publisher description.
Electronic Access:
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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012305.html
Edition:
5th ed.
ISBN:
9780742547988
Physical Description:
xiii, 537 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The analytic categories of the philosophy of sex / Alan Soble -- Are we having sex now or what? / Greta Christina -- Sexual perversion / Thomas Nagel -- Sexual behavior : another position / Janice Moulton -- Plain sex / Alan Goldman -- Masturbation, again / Alan Soble -- Sex / Christopher Hamilton -- Is cybersex sex? / Louise Collins -- The wrong of homosexuality / John Finnis -- Homosexuality and infertility / Andrew Koppelman -- Periodic continence / Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) -- In defense of homosexuality / John Corvino -- Beyond gay marriage : the road to polyamory / Stanley Kurtz -- In defense of same-sex marriage / Cheshire Calhoun -- Sexual identity and sexual justice / Jerome Neu -- Sexual morality and the concept of using another person / Thomas A. Mappes -- Sexual exploitation and the value of persons / Howard Klepper -- Sexual use / Alan Soble -- Consent and sexual relations / Alan Wertheimer -- The harms of consensual sex / Robin West -- Two views of sexual ethics : promiscuity, pedophilia, and rape / David Benatar -- Virtue ethics, casual sex, and objectification / Raja Halwani -- Prostitution : a subjective position / Yolanda Estes -- Whether from reason or prejudice : taking money for bodily services / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Pornography as embodied practice / Joan Mason-Grant -- Talk dirty to me / Sallie Tisdale -- Pornography and the social sciences / Alan Soble -- Power, sex, and friendship in academia / Deirdre Golash -- Antioch's 'sexual offense policy' : a philosophical exploration / Alan Soble -- Ah! my foolish heart : a reply to Alan Soble's "Antioch's 'sexual offense policy' : a philosophical exploration" / Eva Feder Kittay.
