College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone: Philosophers With Benefits / Edition 1

by Michael Bruce, Robert M. Stewart, Heather Corinna, Fritz Allhoff

Overview

Written with insight and humor, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical issues relating to student sex.

• Examines the ethical issues of dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol use
• Considers student-teacher relationships, sexual experimentation, the meaning of sex in a college setting and includes two essays based on influential research projects on ‘friends with benefits’
• Many of the authors teach classes that explore the philosophy of love and sex, and most are scholars from the Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444332940
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/16/2010
Series:	Philosophy for Everyone Series , #3
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	831,397
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Editors
Michael Bruce currently works in the non-profit sector with at-risk youth. Previously, he was a teaching assistant at California State University, Chico, and received his Master’s degree from San Diego State University, specializing in continental philosophy. He has published articles in the pop culture and philosophy genre and is currently editing Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy for Wiley-Blackwell.

Robert M. Stewart is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Moral Philosophy: A Comprehensive Introduction (1994), and editor of Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love (1995). He has published numerous journal articles.

Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.  In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

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Table of Contents

Foreword Heather Corinna viii

Acknowledgments Michael Bruce Robert M. Stewart xiii

Campus Orientation: An Introduction to College Sex-Philosophy for Everyone Michael Bruce Robert M. Stewart 1

Part I Freshman Year: Hook-Up Culture 15

1 Sex and Socratic Experimentation Sisi Chen George T. Hole 17

2 The Straight Sex Experiment Bassam Romaya 28

3 The Virtual Bra Clasp: Navigating Technology in College Courtship Michael Bruce 40

4 Smeared Makeup and Stiletto Heels: Clothing, Sexuality, and the Walk of Shame Brett Lunceford 51

5 Relations at a Distance Bill Puka 61

Part II Sophomore Year: Friends with Benefits 75

6 What's Love Got to Do with It? Epicureanism and Friends with Benefits William O. Stephens 77

7 Friends with Benefits: A Precarious Negotiation Timothy R. Levine Paul A. Mongeau 91

8 The Philosophy of Friends with Benefits: What College Students Think They Know Kelli Jean K. Smith Kelly Morrison 103

Part III Junior Year: Ethics of College Sex 115

9 A Horny Dilemma: Sex and Friendship between Students and Professors Andrew Kania 117

10 Philosophers and the Not so Platonic Student-Teacher Relationship Danielle A. Layne 131

11 Thinking About Thinking About Sex Ashley McDowell 145

12 Exploring the Association Between Love and Sex Guy Pinku 158

13 Sex for a College Education Matthew Brophy 169

Part IV Senior Year: Sex and Self-Respect 185

14 Meaningful Sex and Moral Respect Robert M. Stewart 187

15 Can Girls Go wild With Self-Respect? John Draeger 198

16 Mutual Respect and Sexual Morality: How to Have College Sex Well Yolanda Estes 209

17 Bad Faith or True Desire? A Sartrean View on College Sex Antti Kuusela 220

Notes on Contributors 232

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Overall then, College Sex is a valuable collection. Most readers will want to skip and dip around the essays, looking for those that are most helpful to them. Many of the essays are not traditional philosophical approaches, but the use of communications and psychology scholarship in the book fits well with the philosophical discussion. Furthermore, the level of the writing is pitched well for lower level undergraduate courses in the philosophy of sex love: I plan to use some of the chapters here for my future courses." (Metapsychology, 31 May 2011)

"You actually get something from it. Rather than a textbook in a class that you read and forget almost instantaneously, College Sex forces you to see sex from a more objective perspective - you'll soon be asking questions regarding your own sex life and how good and healthy it actually is." (Her Campus, September 2010)

"The sex and philosophy combo might seem like a peculiar mix, but as you flip and through the book's sections (freshman year, sophomore year, junior year and senior year), it's plausible to see how Socrates, Nietzsche, Aristotle and sex are closely connected with one another." (Campus Circle, 25 August 2010)