"Centering on the examination of the social and legal context of adultery, homosexuality, imprety, and the public -- private dichotomy in Athenian society, this book attempts to examine the problems of social control and the regulation of sexuality in a way that will be of inter…
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"Centering on the examination of the social and legal context of adultery, homosexuality, imprety, and the public -- private dichotomy in Athenian society, this book attempts to examine the problems of social control and the regulation of sexuality in a way that will be of inter…
This resource describes the social and legal history, milieu, precendents, and final decisions for 119 significant court decisions regarding sexuality. The cases are arranged in chapters dealing with such aspects of sexuality as reproduction (e.g., theconstitutionality of eugeni…
Challenging everything from the mandates of the Catholic Church to the hotly debated ethics of pornography, and from the controversy surrounding gay rights to issues of gender and feminism, With Pleasure explores a new theory of human sexuality that ignites every hot topic in th…
This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of p…
How much of a say do we have in our own sexuality? More than is commonly assumed, Richard Posner asserts in this intellectually sweeping and compulsively readable account of sexuality and its social control. While acknowledging that sexual drives and orientations are formed in a…
