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Sex and Reason

paperback – January 1, 1994
by Richard A. Posner
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ISBN-13: 9780674802803 ISBN-10: 0674802802
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1994
Weight
1.5 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×2.80×16.50 cm

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Sex and Reason by Richard A. Posner. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780674802803.

Sexual 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.