WMGST-108 Philosophy of Love and Sex
What is it to love someone as a lover rather than, say, a parent or a sibling or a friend? Does sexual desire have a legitimate place in the former? Or does true love leave sex behind? What is the nature of sexual desire and how does it relate to sexual activity and sexual pleasure? Why do we as a society take a negative view of sexuality? What exactly is wrong with sexual desire and its expression? What is sexual perversion? What should we make of sexual proclivities and orientations that differ, sometimes radically, from our own? Among the topics that will be discussed in this class are sexual intercourse of various sorts, perversion, masturbation, trans-gender identities, homosexuality, prostitution, pornography, and rape.
First Year Course (18)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
PHIL-108