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Two Arguments for Prostitution
In this chapter, I offer two direct arguments—one consequentialist, the other nonconsequentialist—for the ultima facie moral permissibility of...
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Consequentialist Arguments Against Prostitution
In this chapter, I critique ten nonreligious consequentialist arguments for the immorality of prostitution. As nonreligious, they are arguments...
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Private Morality and the State
The demarcation of the private and public life leads to role of the state in private life. Many individuals have been the unflinching voice for moral...
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Nonconsequentialist Arguments Against Prostitution
In this chapter, I critique seven nonreligious nonconsequentialist arguments for the immorality of prostitution. As nonreligious, they are arguments...
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Cultural Transformations of Love and Sex in the Digital Age
This chapter is rather descriptive than analytical, with the aim to provide a semioticSemiotics insight into the substantial cultural changes in the...
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Film, Art, and Pornography
This chapter rehearses the historical discourse over pornography with the intent of orienting the reader to the discourse and motivating a more...
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Kant on Sexuality and Marriage
Kant argues that the exercise of sexuality outside the context of monogamous marriage leads to the debasement of humanity. When people have sex, they...
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Preliminaries
In this chapter, I cover some preliminaries that will serve as the backdrop against which the rest of the book is to be understood and evaluated....
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Sex and Technology: From Tinder to Robot Sex
There exist two distinct waves of sexual technology: first-wave technologies, that help us connect with human partners, and second-wave technologies,...
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Gender, Sex and Market – “Can Sex Be a Service Like Any Other?”
This article links historical and religious views of morality with representations of gender and sex on the market. The intention has been to...
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Morality and the Law
Even if the recreational use of illicit drugs were morally wrong, that is only one premise of the moralist argument. The other premise is legal...
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Kant and Arendt on the Challenges of Good Sex and the Temptations of Bad Sex
This chapter considers why a good sexual life tends to be so challenging, and why the temptation to settle for a bad one can be so alluring. Hay and...
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Sexual Use, Sexual Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences: A Social Approach to Sexual Objectification
In this chapter, Marino explores the ethics of sexual objectification through the lens of social autonomy and adaptive preferences. The starting...
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Deception and Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment violates workers’ rights when they did not consent to work in an environment that exposed them to harassment. Sexual harassment...
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The Myth of the Happy Hooker: Kantian Moral Reflections on a Phenomenology of Prostitution
This essay represents an attempt to bring prostitutes’ and clients’ voices into the philosophical discourse about prostitution. We wish to add the...
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Sexual Exclusion
This chapter delineates several distinct (and often problematically conflated) kinds of sexual exclusion: (1) lack of access to sexual gratification...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Multi-Stakeholder Governance: Pluralism, Feminist Perspectives and Women’s NGOs
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has increasingly explored relationships between civil society and social movements, including...
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Sex Robots and Views from Nowhere: A Commentary on Jecker, Howard and Sparrow, and Wang
This article explores the implications of what it means to moralize about future technological innovations. Specifically, I comment on three papers...
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Human Rights
Chapter 6 focuses on human rights. Not a day goes by without news of human rights abuses. There is a growing awareness that company products and...