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Sex and Reason

By Richard A. Posner

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0674802802, 9780674802803
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30069760 bytes)
Pages
469\469
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don't act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner's rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs.

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