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Sex and Reason
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Richard A. Posner
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English
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1992
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As judge and legal scholar Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this study examines societies from ancient Greece to today’s Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M.
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[Posner] is one of the most distinguished and prolific legal thinkers of his generation [and this is an] extraordinary book… Like [George Bernard] Shaw, he combines a passion for exposing humbug and pseudo-profundity with an odd but genuine sort of social compassion, a delight in shocking the self-righteous with a love of human diversity and freedom… We will remember, and profit by, the wit and the courage of his attacks on bigotry, folly, and cruelty.
-- Martha C. Nussbaum New Republic
-- Martha C. Nussbaum New Republic
An incisive tour through theories of sexuality and legal regulation of such matters as marriage, pregnancy, homosexuality, sexual revolution in the courts, erotic art, pornography and nudity, sexual abuse, and the separation of reproduction from sex… At a time when intellectual shoddiness permeates our highest court, [Posner] is a true philosopher of law.
-- Carlin Romano Washington Post Book World
-- Carlin Romano Washington Post Book World
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
1 - PART ONE The History of Sexuality
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CHAPTER ONE Theoretical Sexology
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CHAPTER TWO Autres Temps~ Autres Moeurs
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CHAPTER THREE Sexuality and Law
70 - PART TWO A Theory of Sexuality
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CHAPTER FOUR The Biology of Sex
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CHAPTER FIVE Sex and Rationality
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CHAPTER SIX The History of Sexuality from the Perspective ofEconomics
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CHAPTER SEVEN Optimal Regulation of Sexuality
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CHAPTER EIGHT Moral Theories of Sexuality
220 - PART THREE The Regulation of Sexuality
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CHAPTER NINE Marriage and the Channeling of Sex
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CHAPTER TEN The Control of Pregnancy
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Homosexuality: The Policy Questions
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CHAPTER TWELVE The Sexual Revolution in the Courts
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Erotic Art, Pornography, and Nudity
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Coercive Sex
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN Separating Reproduction from Sex
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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