[edited by] Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman, and Jacob M. Held.
Seventh edition.
Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2017]
xi, 540 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The analytic categories of the philosophy of sex / Alan Soble, with Raja Halwani -- Are we having sex now or what? / Greta Christina -- Sexual perversion / Thomas Nagel -- Plain sex / Alan Goldman -- Sex and sexual perversion / Robert Gray -- Chatting is not cheating / John Portmann -- An essay on masturbation / Alan Soble -- Trans 101 / Talia Mae Bettcher -- The negotiative theory of gender identity and the limits of first-person authority / Burkay Ozturk -- Bisexuality and bisexual marriage / Kayley Vernallis -- Racial sexual desires / Raja Halwani -- Is "loving more" better? The values of polyamory / Elizabeth Brake -- What is sexual orientation? / Robin Dembroff -- Thinking queerly about sex and sexuality / Kim Q. Hall -- LGBTQ...Z? / Kathy Rudy -- Sexual morality and the concept of using another person / Thomas A. Mappes -- Sexual use / Alan Soble -- Consent and sexual relations / Alan Wertheimer -- Dark desires / Seiriol Morgan -- The harms of consensual sex / Robin West -- Sexual objectification / Lina Papadaki -- Casual sex, promiscuity, and objectification / Raja Halwani -- BDSM / Shaun Miller -- Two views of sexual ethics : promiscuity, pedophilia, and rape / David Benatar -- Gifts and duties / Alan Soble.
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"With twenty-five essays, fourteen 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, transgender and transsexual issues, rape, and promiscuity. New chapters discuss polyamory, transgender issues, queer issues, paraphilia, drugs and sex, objectification, BDSM, cybersex, and sex and race. Updated and new discussion questions offer students starting points for debate in both the classroom and the bedroom."--Amazon.com.