Sexual desire, moral choice, and human ends

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 178-192

  Thomas, Laurence ^a  

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EID: 34248078158     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00003     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. On this see, Ian Hacking, "The Making and Molding of Child Abuse", Critical Inquiry 17 (1991).
2. I have discussed child sexual abuse in an earlier essay, "The Grips of Immorality: Child Abuse and Moral Failure", in Reason, Ethics, and Society, ed. Jerome Schneewind (Chicago: Open Court, 1996)
3. Here I follow Kurt Baier's excellent analysis of authority, "The Justification of Governmental Authority", Journal of Philosophy 69 (1972).
4. See Bruce Rind and Philip Tromovitch, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples", Psychological Bulletin 124 (1998).
5. see T. W. Shannon, Eugenics: Scientific Knowledge of the Laws of Sex, Life and Heredity (Milikin, 1921).
6. See Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck, Histoire d'une grande peur, la masturbation (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998)
7. I am indebted here to Thomas Nagel, "Sexual Perversion", Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969);
8. Sara Ruddick, "Better Sex", in Philosophy and Sex, rev. ed., ed. Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston (Buffalo, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984);
9. and Claudia Card, The Natural Lottery (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996).
10. See her Unnatural Lottery and also her essay "Some Thoughts about Caring", in Feminist Ethics, ed. Claudia Card (Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1991).
11. See his "Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation", in Rituals of Manhood, ed. Gilbert H. Herdt (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982)
12. The best account of this idea is to be found in Michele Moody-Adams, Fieldwork in Familiar Places (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).