With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality
Based on the premise that pleasure--not procreation--takes precedence in the drive to have sex, the authors challenge everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding AIDS and gay rights to issues of gender and...
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Based on the premise that pleasure--not procreation--takes precedence in the drive to have sex, the authors challenge everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding AIDS and gay rights to issues of gender and feminism. A startling and original new theory that stands in direct opposition to longstanding traditions, here is "a fresh & theoretically enticing approach to the study of human sexuality."-- Kirkus Reviews.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195146097 (0195146093)
Publish date: September 26th 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English