Sex and Reason

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Sex and Reason

Author	: Richard A. Posner
File Size	: 52,5 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 July 2009
ISBN	: 9780674042254
Pages	: 469 pages

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Sex and Reason by Richard A. Posner Book PDF Summary

Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don’t act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today’s Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner’s rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs.

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Sex Preference and Family by David M. Estlund,Martha C. Nussbaum

The public furor over issues of same sex marriages, gay rights, pornography, and single-parent families has erupted with a passion not seen since the 1960s. This book gathers seventeen eminent philosophers and legal scholars who offer commentary on sexuality (including sexual behavior, sexual orientation, and the role of pornography in

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The Sleep of Reason by Martha C. Nussbaum,Juha Sihvola

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings together an international group of philosophers, philologists,

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U.S. Congresswoman Degette weighs in just prior to the 2008 presidential election on the persistent absurdity of the Bush administration in its efforts to politicize sex, and looks at the conservative agenda as it relates to bioethics and scientific research.

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Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought by David West

This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of sexual experience. Western philosophy and religion have distorted and continue to distort our experience of sex and love through three far-reaching constellations of reason,

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Reason and Less by Vinod Goel

A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolutionarily older

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Why Women Have Sex by Cindy M. Meston,David M. Buss

An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America's leading research psychologists Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss

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