2. The Metaphysical Foundations of Sexual Morality
Edward Feser
3. The Ethics of Sexual Pleasure
Raja Halwani
4. The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object
Caleb Ward and Ellie Anderson
5. Kant and Arendt on the Challenges of Good Sex and the Temptations of Bad Sex
Carol Hay and Helga Varden
6. Sexual Jealousy and Sexual Infidelity
Natasha McKeever and Luke Brunning
7. Sexual Use, Sexual Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences: A Social Approach to Sexual Objectification
Patricia Marino
8. Masturbation and the Problem of Irrational and Immoral Sexual Activity
Michael Tooley
Part II Sex and Traditional Values
9. Virgin vs. Chad: On Enforced Monogamy as a Solution to the Incel Problem
Dan Demetriou
10. The Ethics of Cohabitation
Christopher Kaczor
11. Why Is Sexual Assault Special?: Transactional Sex and Sacred Intuitions
Francis J. Beckwith
12. Deception and Sexual Harassment
Jessica Flanigan
13. Homosexuality, Bestiality, and Necrophilia
David Benatar
14. The Immorality of Premarital Sexual Abstinence
Alastair Norcross
Part III Sex and Consent
15. Sexual Autonomy and Sexual Consent
Shaun Miller
16. Enthusiastic Consent to Sex
Tom Dougherty
17. On the Sufficiency of Sexual Consent
Alan Soble
18. Bad Sex and Consent
Elise Woodard
19. “Respect Women”: Thinking Beyond Consent After #MeToo
Jordan Pascoe
20. Should Statutory Rape be a Crime?
Stephen Kershnar
21. Sexual Consent, Dementia, and Well-Being
Andria Bianchi
22. Exploitation and Sexual Consent
David Boonin
23. A Solution to the Problem of Rape by Fraud
Laurie Shrage
Part IV Sex, Discrimination, and Exclusion
24. Sexual Racism
Sonu Bedi
25. Racialized Sexual Discrimination: A Moral Right or Morally Wrong?
Cheryl Abbate
26. Sexual Ableism: Is Sex Work the Best Solution?
Kevin Mintz
27. Sexual Exclusion
Alida Liberman
Part V Sex and Digital Technology
28. Sex and Technology: From Tinder to Robot Sex
Neil McArthur
29. College Party Hook Ups: Consent, Apps, and Double Standards
James Rocha
30. #MeToo and the Ethics of Doxing Sexual Transgressors
Peter Brian Barry
31. Naughty Fantasies (With a New Postscript Including Sex Robots)
John Corvino
David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Department’s Center for Values and Social Policy. He is also the Editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. Professor Boonin received his B.A. in philosophy and history summa cum laude from Yale University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. He taught at Georgetown University (1992-94) and Tulane University (1994-98) before taking up his current position at CU in 1998. He also held a visiting position for a semester as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006.
The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics is a comprehensive collection of recent research on the ethics of sexual behavior, representing a wide range of perspectives. It addresses a number of traditional subjects in the area, including questions about pre-marital, extra-marital, non-heterosexual, and non-procreative sex, and about the nature and significance of sexual consent, sexual desire, and sexual activity, as well as a variety of more recent topics, including sexual racism, sexual ableism, sex robots, and the #metoo response to sexual harassment. Each chapter defends a substantive thesis about the topic it addresses and the handbook as a whole thereby provides a strong foundation for future research in this important and growing field of inquiry.
David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of seven books on topics including abortion, punishment, race, and our obligations to past and future generations.