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Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality

Edited with Brian D. Earp and Lori Watson, and published by Routledge in 2022. You can buy the book here and read it in Routledge Handbooks online here.

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 volume’s 40 chapters are written by an international team of both respected senior researchers and essential emerging scholars. 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. 

Table of Contents


Introduction

Clare Chambers, Brian D. Earp, Lori Watson

Part I: What is Sex? Is Sex Good?

  1. What is a Sexual Act?
    Kristina Gupta
  2. Eroticisms in Cross-Cultural Perspective
    Sara Johnsdotter
  3. The Value of Sex
    Sam Shpall
  4. Is There a Right to Sex?
    John Danaher
  5. The Concept and Significance of Virginity
    Neil McArthur

Part II: Sexual Orientations

  1. What is a Sexual Orientation?
    Lisa M. Diamond
  2. Sexual Orientation, Sexual Desires, and Choice
    E. Diáz-León
  3. Queer and Straight
    Matthew Andler
  4. Asexuality
    A.W. Eaton and Bailey Szustak
  5. Feminist Heterosexuality
    Christie Hartley
  6. Heterosexual Male Sexuality: A Positive Vision
    Shaun Miller
  7. Radical Feminist Analysis of Heterosexuality
    Jessica Joy Cameron
  8. Lesbian Feminism
    Finn Mackay

Part III: Sexual Autonomy and Consent

  1. Flirting
    Lucy McDonald
  2. Sex and Consent
    Karamvir Chadha
  3. Beyond Consent
    Susan J. Brison
  4. Sexual Autonomy, Consent, and Reproductive Control
    Mianna Lotz
  5. Sexual Practices and Relationships Among Young People
    Kate Ott and Lauren D. Sawyer
  6. Sex and Disability
    Tom Shakespeare
  7. Sexual Consent, Aging, and Dementia
    Andria Bianchi

Part IV: Regulating Sexual Relationships

  1. Monogamy: Government Policy
    Stephen Macedo and Peter de Marneffe
  2. Plural Marriage and Equality
    Lori Watson
  3. Sex, Marriage, and Race
    Robin Zheng
  4. The Ethics of Relationship Anarchy
    Ole Martin Moen and Alexander Sørlie

Part V: Pathologizing Sex and Sexuality

  1. The Eugenic Logic of Sexual Normality
    Tara M. Dankel
  2. “Disordering” Sex Through Medicine
    Katarzyna Grunt-Mejer
  3. Religion and Sexual Shame
    Krista K. Thomason
  4. Homophobia and Conversion ‘Therapies’
    Sean Aas and Candice Delmas

Part VI: Contested Desires

  1. The Ethics and Politics of Sexual Preference
    Gulzaar Barn
  2. BDSM
    Manon Garcia
  3. Critiquing Consensual Adult Incest
    Natasha McKeever
  4. Pedophilia
    Agustín Malón

Part VII: Objectification and Commercialized Sex

  1. Sexual Objectification
    Patricia Mariño
  2. The Civil-Rights Approach to Pornography
    John Stoltenberg
  3. Pornography and the “Sex Wars”
    Mari Mikkola
  4. The Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work
    Jessica Flanigan
  5. An Equality Approach to Prostitution
    Lori Watson

Part VIII: Technology and the Future of Sex

  1. The Ethics of Matching: Hookup Apps and Online Dating
    Michal Klincewicz, Lily E. Frank, and Emma A. Jane
  2. The Ethics of Humanoid Sex Robots
    Sven Nyholm
  3. Sex and Emergent Technologies
    Robbie Arrell

About the editors


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 University Press, 2017), and Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 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 University Press, 2019); and, with Jessica Flanigan, of Debating Sex Work (Oxford University Press, 2019).