TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soble,Alan
TI  - The philosophy of sex and love: an introduction 
T2  - The Paragon issues in philosophy series
SN  - 9781557788757 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BD436 .S585 2008
U1  - 128/.46 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - St. Paul, MN
PB  - Paragon House
KW  - Love
KW  - Sex
KW  - Sexual ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-305) and index; The background -- Projects; the significance of sex and love; secret pictures; sexual pluralism -- A history of the philosophy of sex and love -- The ancients; medieval philosophy; modern philosophy; the twentieth century; contemporary philosophy -- Sex -- Sexual concepts -- Analytic questions; sexual activity; sexual desire; social constructionism; polysemicity (polysemy); sexual sensations -- Sexual perversion -- St. Thomas Aquinas; problems with natural law; psychological perversion; psychiatry and perversion; a conceptual framework -- Sexual ethics -- Contraception; beyond natural law; Immanuel Kant; contemporary Kantian philosophy; utilitarianism; sadomasochism; love -- Sexual politics -- Consent, again; pedophilia; prostitution and marriage; marital rape; compulsory heterosexuality; pornography -- Love -- Varieties of love -- What is love?; love and value; eros and agape; evaluating and assessing love; the fine gold thread; concern and benevolence; union -- Features of love -- Tangles in theories of love; exclusivity; uniqueness; irreplaceability; constancy; reciprocity -- Sex, love, and marriage -- Pauline marriage; the links; sex and love; the death of desire; saving marriage; reasons for monogamy; reasons for marriage -- Gender -- Women and men; gender and sex surveys; heterosexual failure; gendered sexuality; gendered love
N2  - "This introductory textbook is an overview of the nature and the ethics of the many aspects of sex and love"--Provided by publisher
ER  -