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This book's thirty essays explore philosophically the nature and morality of sexual perversion, cybersex, masturbation, homosexuality, contraception, same-sex marriage, promiscuity, pedophilia, date rape, sexual objectification, teacher-student relationships, pornography, and prostitution. Authors include Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Nagel, Alan Goldman, John Finnis, Sallie Tisdale, Robin West, Alan Wertheimer, John Corvino, Cheshire Calhoun, Jerome Neu, and Alan Soble, among others. A valuable resource for sex researchers as well as undergraduate courses in the philosophy of sex.

Part 1 Part I. Analysis and Perversion Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Analytic Categories of the Philosophy of Sex Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Are We Having Sex Now or What? Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Sexual Perversion Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Sexual Behavior: Another Position Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Plain Sex Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Masturbation, Again Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Sex Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Is Cybersex Sex? Part 10 Part II. Homosexuality and Reproduction Chapter 11 Chapter 9. The Wrong of Homosexuality Chapter 12 Chapter 10. Homosexuality and Infertility Chapter 13 Chapter 11. Periodic Continence Chapter 14 Chapter 12. In Defense of Homosexuality Chapter 15 Chapter 13. Beyond Gay Marriage: The Road to Polyamory Chapter 16 Chapter 14. In Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Chapter 17 Chapter 15. Sexual Identity and Sexual Justice Part 18 Part III. Use, Objectification, and Consent - the Theory Chapter 19 Chapter 16. Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person Chapter 20 Chapter 17. Sexual Exploitation and the Value of Persons Chapter 21 Chapter 18. Sexual Use Chapter 22 Chapter 19. Consent and Sexual Relations Chapter 23 Chapter 20. The Harms of Consensual Sex Chapter 24 Chapter 21. Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Pedophilia, and Rape Chapter 25 Chapter 22. Virtue Ethics, Casual Sex, and Objectification Part 26 Part IV. Use, Objectification, and Consent - Applied Topics Chapter 27 Chapter 23. Prostitution: A Subjective Position Chapter 28 Chapter 24. "Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily Services Chapter 29 Chapter 25. Pornography as Embodied Practice Chapter 30 Chapter 26. Talk Dirty to Me Chapter 31 Chapter 27. Pornography and the Social Sciences Chapter 32 Chapter 28. Power, Sex, and Friendship in Academia Chapter 33 Chapter 29. Antioch's 'Sexual Offense Policy': A Philosophical Exploration Chapter 34 Chapter 30. AH! My Foolish Heart: A Reply to Alan Soble's "Antioch's 'Sexual Offense Policy': A Philosophical Exploration." Part 35 Suggested Readings

Nicholas Power is associate professor of philosophy at the University of West Florida (in Pensacola, Florida) and has published on the philosophy of science and of mind as well as evolutionary theory. Now teaching courses in the philosophy of sex and love, of science, and of mind, and chairing a department of philosophy and religious studies, he received his dissertation from Temple University, hails originally from Kilkenny, Ireland, the city of Berkeley and Swift, and shares their scatalological outlook. His two daughters, Hannah (b. 1992) and Molly (b. 1998), don't.

Alan Soble, who has taught the philosophy of sex and love more than fifty times in his career, is Professor Emeritus and University Research Professor of the University of New Orleans, from which he retired in 2007. Now teaching the philosophy of sex and love, and other courses, as an adjunct at several schools, he is the editor of the 2-volume Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2006) and author or editor of another dozen books on sex and love. Some of his journal articles and book chapters have been reprinted abroad, translated into German, Hungarian, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Chinese. After Katrina in August 2005, he and his daughters scattered: Rebecca Jill (b. 1969) has been spending time in the Middle East, mostly in Turkey, while Rachel Emoke (b. 1993) resettled in Milwaukee. Many of Soble's articles and reviews can be found on his web site, http://fs.uno.edu/asoble, and some of his provocative views about sex and love are expressed in his contributions to Amherst College's question-and-answer web site, AskPhilosophers.org, for which he serves as a panelist.