This Handbook covers the most urgent, controversial, and important topics in the philosophy of sex. It is both philosophically rigorous and yet accessible to specialists and non-specialists, covering ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language, and featuring interactions with neighboring disciplines such as psychology, bioethics, sociology, and anthropology.
The volumes 40 chapters, written by an international team of both respected senior researchers and essential emerging scholars, are divided into eight parts:
I. What is Sex? Is Sex Good? II. Sexual Orientations III. Sexual Autonomy and Consent IV. Regulating Sexual Relationships V. Pathologizing Sex and Sexuality VI. Contested Desires VII. Objectification and Commercialized Sex VIII. Technology and the Future of Sex
The broad scope of coverage, depth in insight and research, and accessibility in language make The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality a comprehensive introduction for newcomers to the subject as well as an invaluable reference work for advanced students and researchers in the field.
Introduction
1. What is a Sexual Act?
2. Eroticisms in Cross-Cultural
Perspective
3. The Value of Sex
4. Is There a Right to Sex?
5. The Concept
and Significance of Virginity
6. What is a Sexual Orientation?
7. Sexual
Orientation, Sexual Desires, and Choice
8. Queer and Straight
9. Asexuality
10. Feminist Heterosexuality
11. Heterosexual Male Sexuality: A Positive
Vision
12. Radical Feminist Analysis of Heterosexuality
13. Lesbian Feminism
14. Flirting
15. Sex and Consent
16. Beyond Consent
17. Sexual Autonomy,
Consent, and Reproductive Control
18. Sexual Practices and Relationships
Among Young People
19. Sex and Disability
20. Sexual Consent, Aging, and
Dementia
21. Monogamy: Government Policy
22. Plural Marriage and Equality
23.
Sex, Marriage, and Race
24. The Ethics of Relationship Anarchy
25. The
Eugenic Logic of Sexual Normality
26. "Disordering" Sex Through Medicine
27.
Religion and Sexual Shame
28. Homophobia and Conversion 'Therapies'
29. The
Ethics and Politics of Sexual Preference
30. BDSM
31. Critiquing Consensual
Adult Incest
32. Pedophilia
33. Sexual Objectification
34. The Civil-Rights
Approach to Pornography
35. Pornography and the "Sex Wars"
36. The Case for
Decriminalizing Sex Work
37. An Equality Approach to Prostitution
38. The
Ethics of Matching: Hookup Apps and Online Dating
39. The Ethics of Humanoid
Sex Robots
40. Sex and Emergent Technologies
Brian D. Earp is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and bioethicist with interests in gender, sex, sexuality, and related topics. Brian is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and Senior Research Fellow in Moral Psychology at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. With Julian Savulescu, Brian is co-author of Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships (Stanford UP, 2020).
Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Allen Lane, 2022), Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State (Oxford UP, 2017), and Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State UP, 2008).
Lori Watson is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in Saint Louis. She is the co-author, with Patrick Hurley, of A Concise Introduction to Logic, 13th ed. (Cengage, 2016); with Christie Hartley, of Equal Citizenship and Public Reason: A Feminist Political Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2018); with Andrew Altman, of Debating Pornography (Oxford UP, 2019); and, with Jessica Flanigan, of Debating Sex Work (Oxford UP, 2019).
