Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-418) and indexes.
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The problem -- Arousal -- Persons -- Desire -- The individual object -- Sexual phenomena -- The science of sex -- Love -- Sex and gender -- Perversion -- Sexual morality -- The politics of sex -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: The first person -- Appendix 2: Intentionality.
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When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its pra.