Product Description

Ethics and Sex presents a systematic study of the nature and moral significance of human sexuality and of the major issues in sexual morality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105614 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Ethics and Sex presents a systematic study of the nature and moral significance of human sexuality and of the major issues in sexual morality. The book is divided into two main parts. Part One gives a critical analysis of the key conceptions of human sexuality:
the view of sex as bound up with procreation and marriage [bullet point] the romantic approach to sex [bullet point] the understanding of sex as body language [bullet point] the hedonist or 'plain' sex view [bullet point] the traditional distinction between natural and unnatural sex and the notion of sexual perversion.
Part Two discusses the most important issues in sexual morality:
monogamy [bullet point] adultery [bullet point] prostitution [bullet point] homosexuality [bullet point] peadophilia [bullet point] sexual harrassment [bullet point] rape.
In this stimulating and often controversial book, the author argues for a plainer sex view and demonstrates that many of the prohibitions that make up conventional sexual morality cannot wit