With twenty-five essays, seven of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena. Topics include sexual desire, masturbation, sex on the Internet, homosexuality, asexuality, transgender and transsexual issues, rape, and promiscuity, love and sex, polyamory, transgender issues, queer issues, paraphilia, drugs and sex, objectification, BDSM, sex and technology, and sex and race. Updated and new discussion questions offer students starting points for debate in both the classroom and the bedroom.

With twenty-five essays, seven of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena. Topics include sexual desire, masturbation, sex on the Internet, homosexuality, asexuality, transgender and transsexual issues, rape, and promiscuity, love and sex, polyamory, transgender issues, queer issues, paraphilia, drugs and sex, objectification, BDSM, sex and technology, and sex and race. Updated and new discussion questions offer students starting points for debate in both the classroom and the bedroom.

This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love. In Part I, the contributors explore what we can learn from the history of philosophical thinking about love. The chapters cover Ancient Greek thinkers, namely Plato and Aristotle, as well as Kierkegaard's critique of preferential love and Erich Fromm's mystic interpretation of sexual relations. Part II covers current conceptions and practices of love. These chapters explore how love changes over time, the process of falling in love, the erotic dimension of romantic love, and a new interpretation of grand-parental love. Finally, Part III looks at the future of love. These chapters address technological developments related to love, such as algorithm-driven dating apps and robotic companions, as well as the potential of polyamory as a future romantic ideal. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in moral philosophy and social and political philosophy who are working on issues related to the philosophy of love.