LEADER 03291oam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818295403321 005 20231024211949.0 010 $a0-674-04225-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674042254 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244618 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188162 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244618 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10169991 035 $a(PQKB)11306010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314273 035 $a(OCoLC)923109343 035 $a(DE-B1597)574440 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674042254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300263 035 $a(OCoLC)1294424294 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787138 100 $a19910806d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSex and reason /$fRichard A. Posner 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d1992. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 458 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-80279-9 311 0 $a0-674-80280-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$tPART ONE The History of Sexuality --$tCHAPTER ONE Theoretical Sexology --$tCHAPTER TWO Autres Temps~ Autres Moeurs --$tCHAPTER THREE Sexuality and Law --$tPART TWO A Theory of Sexuality --$tCHAPTER FOUR The Biology of Sex --$tCHAPTER FIVE Sex and Rationality --$tCHAPTER SIX The History of Sexuality from the Perspective ofEconomics --$tCHAPTER SEVEN Optimal Regulation of Sexuality --$tCHAPTER EIGHT Moral Theories of Sexuality --$tPART THREE The Regulation of Sexuality --$tCHAPTER NINE Marriage and the Channeling of Sex --$tCHAPTER TEN The Control of Pregnancy --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN Homosexuality: The Policy Questions --$tCHAPTER TWELVE The Sexual Revolution in the Courts --$tCHAPTER THIRTEEN Erotic Art, Pornography, and Nudity --$tCHAPTER FOURTEEN Coercive Sex --$tCHAPTER FIFTEEN Separating Reproduction from Sex --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aSexual 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. 606 $aSex$xEconomic aspects 606 $aSex customs 606 $aSex and law 606 $aRationalism 615 0$aSex$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aSex customs. 615 0$aSex and law. 615 0$aRationalism. 676 $a306.7 700 $aPosner$b Richard A$0110175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818295403321 996 $aSex and reason$946636 997 $aUNINA