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The Decline and Fall of Sex
Still concerned as I am to discern the ways and means by which the trained philosophers among us have been thinking about sex, I’m going to dig deeper. From the collection, The Philosophy of Sex, I’m picking out the essay … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Goldman, Alan Goldman’s Plain Sex, Aristotle’s four causes, artificial sexual ethics, Bidimensional Dispositionalism, competition between sexual orientations, counter-erotic social patterns, defining sexual orientation, difficulty of defining sexual orientation, efficient cause of sex, Elizabeth Brake on polyamory, Elizabeth Brake’s Is ‘Loving More’ Better? The Values of Polyamory, embarrassment about sex, final cause of sex, formal cause of sex, love and adolescent confusion, love and damaging jealousies, love and disastrous marriages, love and monogamy, love and women’s liberation, material cause of sex, meaningless sex, novel sexual combinations, philosophers on sex, pleasure as a side effect, pleasure not an exclusive motive, polyamorous requirements, polyamory, privileging heterosexuality, protection for queer orientations, psychological influence of contraception, pulling moral rank between types of desire, reducing heterosexual privilege, Robin Dembroff’s What Is Sexual Orientation?, sex abstracted from consequences, sex affecting a relationship, sex and frustrated people, sex and heartbroken people, sex and losers, sex and professional advancement, sex and selling the Brooklyn Bridge, sex and social advancement, sex and utopian programs, sex and winners, sex as a weapon, sex for its own sake, sex for pleasure, sex for satisfying desire, sex making a difference, sex making no difference, sex without cultural assumptions, sex without cultural layers, sex without external goals, sex without love, sex without purpose, sex without reproductive purpose, sex-change surgery, sex-change surgery and consequences, sex-change surgery and scientific basis, sex-change surgery and tragedy, sexual choice as changeable, sexual competition, sexual taboos, sleeping your way to the top, slippery slope fallacy, taking sex out of context, the double standard, the eros of society, The Philosophy of Sex 2023, thinking about sex, transforming society re gender-nonconforming identity, transforming society re sexual norms, transforming society re transgender protection, transgender persons in women’s bathrooms, transgender persons in women’s locker rooms, transgender persons in women’s prisons, virtues needed for polyamory, women’s sports and transgender players
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Getting Sex All Wrong
There are some who believe that “You are what you eat.” Differing from those people, I believe that “You are what you think.” And about The Big Subject, what philosophers think and write about sex can trickle down to … Continue reading →
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Tagged abortions and risk, academic philosophers on sex, Aristotle on treating people appropriately, Benatar’s Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity Pedophilia and Rape, biological meaning of sex, casual sex, casual sex as including sexual deviance, Christina’s Are We Having Sex or What?, commodification of intimacy, commodification of sex, conceptual questions re sex, consent as distinct from desire, counting coups in sex experience, defining what counts as sex, desire and sex, disillusioned women, eligible partners, eligible sex partners, evolution and contraception, evolution and homosexuality, evolution and human flourishing, evolution and in vitro fertilization, evolution and masturbation, evolution and nothing-but-ism, evolution and reductionism, fear of pregnancy, going along to get along, Greta Christina, intimacy and relationships, Kant vs Aristotle on moral questions, love and sex, love and the essence of sex, manipulative sadness, marriage and the role of great sex, marriage as exclusive and committal, marriage as life-long commitment, Micah Newman’s A Realist Sexual Ethics, misleading scene-setter for studying sex, opinions no woman would hold, oversimplifying evolution, parenting and marriage, philosophers influence the culture, philosophers influence the zeitgeist, philosophical defense of monogamy, pleasure vs the purpose of sex, promiscuity, promiscuity and addiction, promiscuity and regrets, rape, rationales re sex, religious defense of monogamy, reproduction as sex’s defining essence, reproduction as the purpose of sex, scene-setting for philosophic discussion of sex, scoring in sex, seductive sadness, sex and disease, sex and evolution, sex and getting real, sex and how to live, sex and its rationales, sex and love, sex and philosophers, sex and physical risks, sex and psychological wounds, sex and real life, sex and reputation, sex and social standing, sex and why we live, sex as a conceptual question, sex as expressive of loving attachment, sex as significant, sex changing a relationship, sex requiring consent, sexual body count, sexual disillusionment, sexual encounter defined, sexual permissiveness, sexual reckoning, significant sex vs casual sex, social mores as protective, social mores as protective of women, suspending disbelief, suspending judgment in philosophic discussion, suspending judgment in philosophizing re sex, suspending moral judgment in philosophizing, suspending moral judgment in philosophizing re sex, The Big Subject, The Philosophy of Sex 2023, the sexual revolution, traditional view of the role of sex, treating women as a means, Was it sex or not?, What counts as having sex?, What makes an essay philosophical?, When is an essay on sex philosophical?, women and getting threatened, women as means to biological end, women being disgusted, women being offended, women being scorned, women’s erotic vulnerability, women’s vulnerability, You are what you eat, you are what you think
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Getting Philosophical about Sex
Philosophers debate many things, but do they talk about what makes the world go round? As it happens, a number of philosophical colleagues have been contributing to The Philosophy of Sex (Rowman & Littlefield 2023, eds. Raja Halwani, Jacob … Continue reading →
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Tagged agender identity, asymmetry as romantic or exploitative, asymmetry of man/woman intimacy, attaining erotic success, avant garde philosophy, avant garde style, being who you are, biologic facts vs social facts, broadcasting a private encounter, competetive scoring for men re sex, defending women in law, desire at the deep level, desirers mirroring each other, don’t ask don’t tell, eros and atheism, eros and delusive expectations, eros and ideality, eros in Plato’s Phaedrus, exploiting female vulnerability, female vulnerability, feminist in-group taxonomy, gaining one’s life by losing it, Gender Categories by Katharine Jenkins, gender oppression, genderqueer identity, in-group taxonomy, inhabiting one’s identity, interpreting one’s identity, intimacy and disrespect, kiss and tell stories, kissing and telling, love’s aim not appetitive, love’s aim not satisfying an appetite, love’s aim ontological, men’s identity, multiple social identities, Nagel explaining the sexual norm, Nagel on reciprocal attraction, nonreciprocal sexual act, normality in sex, offering sex for moral reasons, ordinary atheism, oversimplifying romance, philosophers debating, philosophic recollection insulting to men, philosophic recollection insulting to women, philosophical colleagues, philosophizing about sex, power imbalances, private experience as life capital, propositioning a man, propositioning a stranger, propositioning a woman, resistance to gender oppression, romance as real-life drama, Sartre on sex as frustration, Sartre’s man is a useless passion, sex as conquest, sex as sacred, sex felt as a duty, sex not a commodity, sex not merely a pleasure, sex vs gender, sex without self-interest, sexual encounter recollected, sexual experience more consequential for women, sexual scoring not a victory for women, sexual supererogation, Soble’s Sexual Gifts and Sexual Duties, supererogatory sex, The Philosophy of Sex 2023, the power of no, the sexual norm, Thomas Nagel’s Sexual Perversion, uncomfortable campus encounter, uncomfortable sexual recollection, ungallant recollections, unresolved man/woman recollection, unresolved romance, unresolved sexual recollection, women and power imbalances, women and social comportment, women’s identity
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