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- Economic analysis of sexuality. See Posner. Richard.Sex Education -2006 - In Alan Soble,Sex from Plato to Paglia: a philosophical encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 1--256.
- Evidence and rhetoric in cicero's pro roscio amerino: The case against.Sex Roscius -2003 -Classical Quarterly 53:235-246.
- The Medical Construction of Gender.Inter Sexed Infants -2001 - In Abigail J. Stewart,Theorizing feminism: parallel trends in the humanities and social sciences. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Export citation
Bookmark - Adkins, AWH (1977)'Lucretius 1.16–139 and the problems of writing versus Latini', Phoenix 31: 145–58. Adler, E.(2003) Vergil's Empire. Political Thought in the Aeneid. Lanham, Md. and Oxford. Aicher, PJ (1992)'Lucretian revisions of Homer', Classical Journal 87: 139–58. [REVIEW]Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex -2007 - In Stuart Gillespie & Philip R. Hardie,The Cambridge companion to Lucretius. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 327.Export citation Bookmark
- This Sex Which Is Not One.Luce Irigaray -1977 - Cornell University Press.In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.
- Kant on sex and marriage: The implications for the same-sex marriage debate.Matthew C. Altman -2010 -Kant Studien 101 (3):309-330.When examined critically, Kant's views on sex and marriage give us the tools to defend same-sex marriage on moral grounds. The sexual objectification of one's partner can only be overcome when two people take responsibility for one another's overall well-being, and this commitment is enforced through legal coercion. Kant's views on the unnaturalness of homosexuality do not stand up to scrutiny, and he cannot (as he often tries to) restrict the purpose of sex to procreation. Kant himself rules out marriage (...) only when the partners cannot give themselves to one another equally – that is, if there is inequality of exchange. Because same-sex marriage would be between equals and would allow homosexuals to express their desire in a morally appropriate way, it ought to be legalized. (shrink)
- Sex differences research: Science or belief.Ruth Bleier -1986 - InFeminist approaches to science. New York: Pergamon Press. pp. 147--164.
- Sex and Philosophy in Augustine.William M. Alexander -1974 -Augustinian Studies 5:197-208.
- Sex and Muscle: The Female Bodybuilder Meets Lacan.Doug Aoki -1996 -Body and Society 2 (4):59-74.
- Sex selection through prenatal diagnosis.D. C. Werz &J. C. Fletcher -1992 - In Helen B. Holmes & Laura Martha Purdy,Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Indiana University Press. pp. 240--253.
- Age and sex differences in critical flicker frequency.Henryk Misiak -1947 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 37 (4):318.
- Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.Linda Hirshman &Jane Larson -1998 - Oup Usa.Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis of power in heterosexual relationships, combining an eye-opening legal history of sexual regualtion with thought-provoking predictions of what the future might bring.
- (1 other version)Casual Sex, Promiscuity, and Objectification.Raja Halwani -2017 - In Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held,The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 401-420.
- Treating Persons as Sex Objects.Linda Lemoncheck -1981 - Dissertation, University of California, Los AngelesThe aim of the dissertation is to examine critically the nature of, and objections to treating persons as sex objects. My thesis is that the sex object is treated as an object, body, or animal but not also in some other appropriate way, viz. as a moral equal to persons. The sex object is treated as lacking some or all of the rights to well-being and freedom that other persons enjoy. In this way, the sex object is dehumanized in her (...) sexual relations with others. ;The analysis begins with three cases of women who complain about being treated as sex objects by men. A characterization of sex objectification as dehumanization is then introduced to explain both the behavior of the sex objectifier and the specific complaints the sex object makes. An investigation follows detailing any special problems or significance dehumanization in sexual relations might have which it would not in other spheres of personal relations. ;The analysis continues with an examination of the claim that treating women as sex objects is an instance of sexism; also briefly considered are the ways in which a person might be held morally responsible for treating someone as a sex object in a society which fosters certain sexual role expectations for both sexes. A description follows of a variety of cases of treating persons as sex objects, such as treating men as sex objects and treating oneself as a sex object, in order to test and refine the preliminary characterization of sex objectification introduced earlier. ;Finally, I consider what reasons one might have for consenting to one's own sex objectification, and whether, in contemporary western society, it is ever morally permissible for a woman to do so. It is argued that the sex objectification of women perpetuates and legitimizes a negative sexual stereotype of women as the sexual subordinates of men. And I conclude that for men to stop treating women as sex objects would mean a radical restructuring of both our sexual attitudes and the power structures inherent in our larger socio-economic institutions. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- How should we teach sex?David Archard -1998 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 32 (3):437–450.In the face of differences about how sex should be taught to young persons, and consistent with a liberal principle of neutrality, educationalists can adopt one of two strategies. The ‘retreat to basics’ consists in teaching only a basic agreed code of sexual conduct, or a set of agreed principles of sexual morality. The ‘conjunctive–disjunctive’ strategy consists in teaching the facts of sexual activity together with the various possible evaluations of these facts. Both strategies are beset with significant and insuperable (...) difficulties. Perhaps one should presume only to teach sex in a way that maximises the foundational liberal ideal of autonomy. (shrink)
- Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles.Otto Weininger -2005 - Indiana University Press.The first complete English translation of Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger's notorious treatise on gender, sexuality, and race.No categories
- Bodily Privacy, Toilets, and Sex Discrimination: The Problem of "Manhood" in a Women's Prison.Jami Anderson -2009 - In Olga Gershenson Barbara Penner,Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender. Temple University Press. pp. 90.Unjustifiable assumptions about sex and gender roles, the untamable potency of maleness, and gynophobic notions about women's bodies inform and influence a broad range of policy-making institutions in this society. In December 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit continued this ignoble cultural pastime when they decided Everson v. Michigan Department of Corrections. In this decision, the Everson Court accepted the Michigan Department of Correction's claim that “the very manhood” of male prison guards both threatens the safety (...) of female inmates and violates the women's “special sense of privacy in their genitals” and declared that sex-specific employment policies for prison guards is not impermissibly discriminatory. I believe that the Court's decision relies on unacceptable stereotypes about sex, gender and sexuality and it significantly undermines Title VII's power to end discriminatory employment practices. (shrink)
- Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues.David Archard -2022 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 56 (5):645-653.I offer an account of sexual ethics, and thus of an education in sexual morality, that tries to make some sense of how a view of consent as central to those ethics might be combined with an education in certain virtues. I do so by exploring what some see as the shortcomings of a standard of consent, namely, how it can deal with instances of prima facie bad sex. I consider and reject various attempts to show that consensuality is sufficient (...) for morally good sex. I then show how a needed supplement to the standard of consent can appeal to a broader view of why consent matters. This in turn connects to those personal and interpersonal virtues that the 2019 Department of Education guidance on relationships and sex education suggests should be taught. Finally, I provide an account of why more than consensuality is needed in the case of sex. In short, I insist on the critical importance of consent but supplement the standard of consent by an appeal to why consent matters and does so especially in the case of sex. (shrink)
- Natural Goodness, Sex, and the Perverted Faculty Argument.Christopher Arroyo -2021 -Philosophy 97 (1):115-142.There is a longstanding and widely held view, often associated with Catholicism, that intrinsically nonprocreative human sex acts are intrinsically immoral. Some philosophers who hold this view, such as Edward Feser, claim that they can defend the view on purely philosophical grounds by relying on the perverted faculty argument. This paper argues that Feser's defense of the perverted faculty argument does not work because Feser fails to recognize the full implications of the species-dependence of natural goodness. By drawing on the (...) work of Peter Geach and Philippa Foot, this paper presents a view of natural goodness that adequately accounts for the species-dependence of such goodness. Using this adequate account, the paper argues that at least some intrinsically nonprocreative human sex acts contribute to human flourishing. (shrink)No categories
- Good Sex: Perspectives on Sexual Ethics.David Archard &Raymond A. Belliotti -1995 -Philosophical Quarterly 45 (180):407.
- Is there a sex difference in the balance of pain excitatory and pain inhibitory processes?Stefan Lautenbacher -1997 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (3):456-457.According to berkley's review, women have a higher risk of suffering from pain than men. If this is true, there should be more frequent and more intense activity both in the pain excitatory system and in the pain inhibitory system of women than of men. Consequently, it remains unclear whether the overall effect at the end is more pain or less pain in women. This conclusion fits the weak sex differences observed for experimental and clinical pain as shown by BERKLEY's (...) review of the literature. (shrink)
- Sex and Enhancement: A Phenomenological–Existential View.Guy Widdershoven,Annemie Halsema &Jenny Slatman -2010 -American Journal of Bioethics 10 (7):20-22.
- Queer Bedfellows of Proposition 8: Adopting Social Conservative and Neoliberal Political Rationalities in California’s Same-Sex Marriage Fight.Alexa DeGagne -2013 -Studies in Social Justice 7 (1):107-124.On November 4, 2008 California voters passed Proposition 8, and accordingly same-sex marriage was banned under the state constitution. Proposition 8 is now being considered by the Supreme Court. The proposition has sparked national debate about the nature of the relationship between the state and citizens’ sexuality and corresponding rights; calling into question the practice of allocating rights and privileges on the basis of sexuality and family form. Proponents of the proposition, who can be classified as predominantly socially conservative, want (...) to maintain the status and privileges of marriage for heterosexuals; arguing that allowing same-sex marriage threatens the legitimacy, sanctity and strength of traditional heterosexual marriage . This article examines the extent to which three Californian pro-same-sex marriage organizations (Equality California, Join the Impact, and the Courage Campaign) have challenged and/or appropriated social conservative and neoliberal discourses in their effort to gain access to the rights and privileges that are currently administered through marriage. (shrink)
- Fish, Sex and Revolution in Athens.James Davidson -1993 -Classical Quarterly 43 (01):53-.Anyone who picks up a collection of fragments of comic poetry is likely to be struck by the large number of references to eating fish. There are shopping-lists for fish, menus for fish and recipes for fish-dishes, with the ingredients and method of preparation graphically described. Aristophanes and others dwell in several places on the charms of eel wrapped in beet-leaves. Other writers describe preparations for a great fish-soup, or the dancing movements of fish as they are fried. Undoubtedly Athenaeus (...) is responsible for this preponderance among the fragments of Comedy of passages concerned primarily with food, especially fish, but some of the fragments are rather long in themselves and indicate, at the very least, that cooks were important characters in many plays, and that dinner-parties must have figured significantly in many plots. Outside Comedy, references to fish-consumption are somewhat fewer in number, but perhaps even more surprising when they do occur. It seems strange that Demosthenes, in discussing Philocrates' betrayal of his city, should think it at all relevant to state that he spent his ill-gotten gains on fish, or that Aeschines, attacking Timarchus on a capital charge, should dwell on his fondness for fish. Moreover, references to fish occur also in philosophy and the Hippocratic corpus. In fact, the frequency with which ancient authors seem to have written about fish reveals almost a preoccupation. The consumption offish clearly held a significance for the Athenians which needs to be uncovered and explained. (shrink)
- The Imbalanced Sex Ratio and the High Bride Price: Watermarks of Race in Demography, Census, and the Colonial Regulation of Reproduction.Alexandra Widmer -2014 -Science, Technology, and Human Values 39 (4):538-560.This article examines changes and continuities in the epistemic and methodological presence of “race” in British imperial demography from 1920 to 1960. It does so in relation to population-level interventions aimed at improving reproduction in the New Hebrides. Through an examination of the sex ratio in relation to debates about demographic decline, the article describes aspects of how sexual selection was connected to race thinking. Taking a balanced sex ratio as a marker of well-adapted, healthy populations—biologically and culturally—the British authorities (...) in the New Hebrides attempted to regulate the bride price in an attempt to level the imbalanced sex ratio. They believed that this intervention would reduce the marriage age of men while also appeasing missionary agendas of changing marriage and kinship practices. I use the metaphor of a “watermark” to think through the conceptual and methodological absent/presence of race in colonial demography and colonial administrators’ attitudes toward and interventions in local reproductive practices. (shrink)No categories
- The Role of Sex in Intimate Relationships: An Exploration Based on Martin Buber’s Intersubjective Theory.Wei Zhang -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.On the basis of Buber’s distinction between “I-It” and “I-Thou” relationships, this paper explores the role of sex in intimate relationships by analyzing research in the fields of psychoanalysis and attachment theory. In the “I-Thou” relationship mode, both parties are often able to fully participate in the current sexual behavior and respond wholeheartedly. When there is incoordination in sexual activities, they can negotiate sincerely, and can even repair the relationship if it breaks down. In the “I-It” relationship mode, sex exists (...) more as a tool to achieve a certain purpose, and the intersubjective relatedness is abnormal: either the boundary will be blurred and others become my vassal or I become others’ vassal ; or the relatedness will be cut off, leading to loneliness or false independence. (shrink)
- Sex Education and Rape.Michelle J. Anderson -2010 -Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 17 (1).In the law of rape, consent has been and remains a gendered concept. Consent presumes female acquiescence to male sexual initiation. It presumes a man desires to penetrate a woman sexually. It presumes the woman willingly yields to the man's desires. It does not presume, and of course does not require, female sexual desire. Consent is what the law calls it when he advances and she does not put up a fight. I have argued elsewhere that the kind of thin (...) consent that the law focuses on is not enough ethically and it should not be enough legally to justify sexual penetration. I advocate sexual negotiation, where individuals discuss sexual desires and boundaries and agree to engage in penetration before it occurs, except under circumstances in which the partners have a reasonable basis to assess one another's nonverbal behavior. I argue that not only is verbal consultation about desire ordinarily ethically necessary before most acts of sexual penetration, it should be legally required. Consultation to ascertain sexual desires and boundaries assures that both parties desire penetration. (shrink)
- Using behavior-analytic implicit tests to assess sexual interests among normal and sex-offender populations.Bryan Roche,Anthony O'Reilly,Amanda Gavin,Maria R. Ruiz &Gabriela Arancibia -2012 -Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology 2.Background: The development of implicit tests for measuring biases and behavioral predispositions is a recent development within psychology. While such tests are usually researched within a social-cognitive paradigm, behavioral researchers have also begun to view these tests as potential tests of conditioning histories, including in the sexual domain. Objective: The objective of this paper is to illustrate the utility of a behavioral approach to implicit testing and means by which implicit tests can be built to the standards of behavioral psychologists. (...) Design: Research findings illustrating the short history of implicit testing within the experimental analysis of behavior are reviewed. Relevant parallel and overlapping research findings from the field of social cognition and on the Implicit Association Test are also outlined. Results: New preliminary data obtained with both normal and sex offender populations are described in order to illustrate how behavior-analytically conceived implicit tests may have potential as investigative tools for assessing histories of sexual arousal conditioning and derived stimulus associations. Conclusion: It is concluded that popular implicit tests are likely sensitive to conditioned and derived stimulus associations in the history of the test-taker rather than ‘unconscious cognitions’, per se. Keywords: implicit association test; function acquisition speed test; relational frame theory; stimulus equivalence; sex offenders; sexual interests (Published: 15 March 2012) Citation: Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 2012, 2 : 17335 - DOI: 10.3402/snp.v2i0.17335. (shrink)
- “Perhaps you only kissed her?”: A contrapuntal reading of the penalties for illicit sex in the sunni hadith literature.Scott C. Lucas -2011 -Journal of Religious Ethics 39 (3):399-415.The goal of this essay is to illustrate how Ebrahim Moosa's method of “contrapuntal reading” can be applied fruitfully to the Sunni hadith literature. My case study is the set of penalties (hudud) for illicit sex, which include flogging, stoning, and banishment. I propose a fresh reading of these sacred texts that brings to the fore the ethical dimension of Prophet Muhammad's conduct, especially his strong reluctance to apply these measures. I conclude by identifying four ethical problems that the stoning (...) penalty raises and suggest how the hadith literature can be read to argue against the validity of this specific punishment. (shrink)
- Institutional Barriers to Research on Sensitive Topics: Case of Sex Communication Research Among University Students.Carey M. Noland -2012 -Journal of Research Practice 8 (1):Article - M2.When conducting research on sensitive topics, it is challenging to use new methods of data collection given the apprehensions of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). This is especially worrying because sensitive topics of research often require novel approaches. In this article a brief personal history of navigating the IRB process for conducting sex communication research is presented, along with data from a survey that tested the assumptions long held by many IRBs. Results support some of the assumptions IRBs hold about sex (...) communication research, but do not support some other assumptions. (shrink)
- Nomadic sexualities: an in‐depth case study about unsafe sex.Patrick O’Byrne -2012 -Nursing Inquiry 19 (4):357-367.O’BYRNE P. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 357–367 Nomadic sexualities: an in‐depth case study about unsafe sexIn an era when researchers are identifying increased rates of unsafe sex among gay and bisexual men, it is important that the practice of unsafe sex be adequately explored. While much literature is already dedicated to this topic, only recently have researchers begun to develop in‐depth understandings of the personal meanings that people ascribe to unsafe sex. This study continues such explorations by examining (i) why (...) one self‐defined gay man engaged in unsafe sex, and (ii) how he defined unsafe sex. The findings suggest that, for this man, his sexuality is nomadic and that what he feels is unsafe sex is the outcome of his nomadic sexuality conflicting with social imperatives for sexual stratification. (shrink)
- Contemporary Confucianism and Same-Sex Marriage - New Possibilities for Gender and Family -. 이수빈 -2025 -Cheolhak-Korean Journal of Philosophy 162:29-50.본 논문은 동성결혼을 둘러싼 현대 유교 이론가들의 찬반 논쟁을 중심으로 유교 담론 내 젠더와 가족 구조에 대한 새로운 가능성을 탐구한다. 동성결혼 합법화 반대 및 제한론자들은 전통적 가족 구조와 성역할을 옹호하며 동성결혼이 사회 질서와 인류의 영속을 위협할 수 있다고 주장한다. 반면 찬성론자들은 유교적 가족 모델을 보다 유연하고 현대적으로 재해석하며, 동성결혼이 구성원 간 관계를 재정의하고 현대적 요구에 부합하는 방향성을 제시할 수 있다고 본다. 본 논문은 이러한 논쟁을 젠더와 가족 구조라는 관점에서 분석하여, 현대 유교가 이를 어떻게 재구성하고 변화하는 사회적 환경에 적응할 수 있을지를 (...) 조망한다. (shrink)No categories
- Sex-Typed Chores and the City: Gender, Urbanicity, and Housework.Long Doan &Natasha Quadlin -2018 -Gender and Society 32 (6):789-813.How does place structure the gendered division of household labor? Because people’s living spaces and lifestyles differ dramatically across urban, suburban, and rural areas, it follows that time spent on household chores may vary across places. In cities, for example, many households do not have vehicles or lawns, and housing units tend to be relatively small. Urban men’s and women’s time use therefore provides insight into how partners contribute to household chores when there is less structural demand for the types (...) of tasks they typically do. We examine these dynamics using data on heterosexual married individuals from the American Time Use Survey combined with the Current Population Survey. We find that urban men spend relatively little time on male-typed chores, but they spend the same amount of time on female-typed chores as their suburban and rural counterparts. This pattern suggests that urban men do not “step up” their involvement in female-typed tasks even though they contribute little in the way of other housework. In contrast, urbanicity rarely predicts women’s time use, implying that women spend considerable time on household chores regardless of where they live. Implications for research on gender and housework are discussed. (shrink)No categories
- Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics.Penny A. Weiss -1993 - NYU Press.Weiss (political science, Purdue U.) wades through the tangled prose and ideas of the 18th-century French philosopher to resolve some of his male-female role contradictions. She finds that his gender-based division of labor was designed to make everyone dependent on the whole society, rather than to relegate women to a subordinate role, but that the actual arrangements he suggests are based on a purely antifeminist culture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
- Unusual modes of reproduction in social insects: Shedding light on the evolutionary paradox of sex.Tom Wenseleers &Annette Van Oystaeyen -2011 -Bioessays 33 (12):927-937.The study of alternative genetic systems and mixed modes of reproduction, whereby sexual and asexual reproduction is combined within the same lifecycle, is of fundamental importance as they may shed light on classical evolutionary issues, such as the paradox of sex. Recently, several such cases were discovered in social insects. A closer examination of these systems has revealed many amazing facts, including the mixed use of asexual and sexual reproduction for the production of new queens and workers, males that can (...) clone themselves and the routine use of incest without deleterious genetic consequences. In addition, in several species, remarkable cases of asexually reproducing socially parasitic worker lineages have been discovered. The study of these unusual systems promises to provide insight into many basic evolutionary questions, including the maintenance of sex, the expression of sexual conflict and kin conflict and the evolution of cheating in asexual lineages. (shrink)
- Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, by Judith G. Coffin.Ellie Anderson -2022 -Simone de Beauvoir Studies 32 (1):159-165.No categories
- Of Glamor, Sex, and De Sade.Timo Airaksinen -1991 - Longwood PressLtd.
- Sex-Differences, Handedness, and Lateralization in the Iowa Gambling Task.Varsha Singh -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7.
- Peruvian Female Sex Workers’ Ethical Perspectives on Their Participation in an HPV Vaccine Clinical Trial.Brandon Brown,Mariam Davtyan &Celia B. Fisher -2015 -Ethics and Behavior 25 (2):115-128.This study examined female sex workers’ evaluation of ethically relevant experiences of participating in an HPV4 vaccine clinical trial conducted in Lima, Peru. The Sunflower Study provided all participants with HPV testing, treatment for those testing positive, and access to the vaccine for all testing negative. Themes that emerged from content analysis of interviews with 16 former participants included the importance of respectful treatment and access to healthcare not otherwise available and concerns about privacy protections, the potential for HIV stigma, (...) and poststudy abandonment. (shrink)
- Sex, Violence and Faith: The Art of Caravaggio.Amelia Arenas -2016 -Arion 23 (3):35.No categories
- Sex, politics, and morality at the FDA: Reflections on the plan B decision.Frank Davidoff -2006 -Hastings Center Report 36 (2):20-25.
- Does the speciation clock tick more slowly in the absence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes?Barret C. Phillips &Suzanne Edmands -2012 -Bioessays 34 (3):166-169.Graphical AbstractSquamates may be an attractive group in which to study the influence of sex chromosomes on speciation rates because of the repeated evolution of heterogamety (both XY and ZW), as well as an apparently large number of taxa with environmental sex-determination.
- Human female exogamy is supported by cross-species comparisons: Cause to recognise sex differences in societal policy?Guy Madison -2009 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (5):400-400.A sex difference in the tendency to outbreed (female exogamy) is a premise for the target article's proposed framework, which receives some support by being shared with chimpanzees but not with more distantly related primates. Further empirical support is provided, and it is suggested that recognition of sex differences might improve effective fairness, taking sexual assault as a case in point.
- Distributive Justice in Competitive Access to Intercollegiate Athletic Teams Segregated by Sex.Louis M. Guenin -1997 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 16 (4):347-372.A theory of justice for the basic structure of society may constrain though not directly govern colleges. The principle of "equal opportunity" commonly applied to jobs either does or does not apply to varsity opportunities. If it applies, it interdicts sex discrimination but, one fallacious argument notwithstanding, it states no obligation to expend resources on new teams. If it does not apply, an analogue of Rawls's difference principle may appropriately constrain inequalities between the sexes. In either case the preferences of (...) a majority of the sex affected by any inequality are pivotal in fashioning any tenable distributive policy. Those preferences are neglected by a government policy that assimilates equal opportunity to equality of (i) the ratio of male:female varsity athletes and (ii) the ratio of male:female students. It is argued that such policy rests on affirming the consequent. Its effects include misallocations of resources and overvaluation of athletics. It is argued that what should approximately be equal is competitive access, the ratio of available positions to aspirants, for each sex. Two versions of a principle of equal competitive access are proposed, the recommended one of which pertains to teams whose net consumption of resources is positive. (shrink)
- Evolution of adrenal and sex steroid action in vertebrates: a ligand‐based mechanism for complexity.Michael E. Baker -2003 -Bioessays 25 (4):396-400.Various explanations have been proposed to account for complex differentiation and development in humans, despite the human genome containing only two to three times the number of genes in invertebrates. Ignored are the actions of adrenal and sex steroids—androgens, estrogens, glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, and progestins—which act through receptors that arose from an ancestral nuclear receptor in a protochordate. This ligand‐based mechanism is unique to vertebrates and was integrated into the already robust network of transcription factors in invertebrates. Adrenal and sex steroids (...) influence almost all aspects of vertebrate differentiation and development. I propose that evolution of this ligand‐based mechanism in a primitive vertebrate was an important contribution to vertebrate complexity. Sequencing of genomes from a cephalochordate, such as amphioxus, and from hagfish and lamprey will establish early events in the evolution of steroid hormone signaling, and also allow genetic studies to elucidate how vertebrate complexity depends on steroid hormones. BioEssays 25:396–400, 2003. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (shrink)
- Stop family destruction!: ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates.Anita Yen Chiang &Hsi-Yao Su -2024 -Critical Discourse Studies 21 (3):237-253.The study investigates the conceptualizations and ideologies concerning family destruction metaphors in same-sex marriage debates. With data from the official websites of two opposing camps in Taiwan, we explore the ways conceptual metaphors can be adopted along with other linguistic resources to shape, redefine and negotiate new meanings of family. Drawing concepts from critical metaphor analysis (CMA), this study shows that the same conceptual metaphor can be used in different contexts to construct and promote seemingly binary ideologies. The adoption of (...) family destruction metaphor suggests that family, ideally a complete, stable, and wholesome environment, is commonly accepted by campaigners as a destructible object worthy of protection. However, the different contextual use of this metaphor showed ideological differences in the ideal membership for marriage, the attackers and protectors of family, the victims of family destruction, and the causes and consequences of family destruction. By inviting the audience to make their own evaluation and interpretation of the metaphor, sensitive arguments can be made in a less direct but emotional manner to achieve the purpose of persuasion. Our results illustrate that conceptual metaphors can be used to reinforce conventional beliefs or introduce new values within a socially accepted frame. (shrink)No categories
- Sex on the Internet and Fitness for Judicial Office: 'Correspondent's Report from Canada'.Adam Dodek -2010 -Legal Ethics 13 (2):215.
- No amicable divorce? Challenging the notion that sexual antagonism drives sex chromosome evolution.Joseph E. Ironside -2010 -Bioessays 32 (8):718-726.Although sexual antagonism may have played a role in forming some sex chromosome systems, there appears to be little empirical or theoretical justification in assuming that it is the driving force in all cases of sex chromosome evolution. In many species, sex chromosomes have diverged in size and shape through the accumulation of mutations in regions of suppressed recombination. It is commonly assumed that recombination is suppressed in sex chromosomes due to selection to resolve sexually antagonistic pleiotropy. However, the requirement (...) for a sex chromosome‐specific mechanism for suppressing recombination is questionable, since more general models of recombination suppression on autosomes also appear to be applicable to sex chromosomes. Direct tests of the predictions of the sexual antagonism hypothesis offer only limited support in specific sex chromosome systems and circumstantial evidence remains open to interpretation. (shrink)
- Sex, Immorality, and Mental Disorders.Bernard Gert &Charles M. Culver -2009 -Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (5):487-495.Although the definition of a mental disorder has remained essentially the same from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R) through DSM-IV to DSM-IV-TR, the account of the paraphilias has changed continually. Although the definition in all the DSMs explicitly rules out deviant sexual behavior as sufficient for labeling someone as having a mental disorder, deviant sexual behavior counts as sufficient for all the paraphilias in DSM-III-R. In DSM-IV, the account of all the paraphilias is made (...) consistent with the definition. In DSM-IV-TR, mere deviant sexual behavior is not sufficient for being classified as having a paraphilia, but immoral deviant sexual behavior is. Thus, in DSM-IV-TR, only those paraphilias that involve immoral deviant sexual behavior are inconsistent with the definition, but deviant sexual behavior by itself does not count as a mental disorder. (shrink)
- A Rawlsian argument for extending family-based immigration benefits to same-sex couples.Matthew J. Lister -2007 -University of Memphis Law Review 37 (Summer):763-764.In this paper I argue that anyone who accepts a Rawlsian account of justice should favor granting family-based immigration benefit to same-sex couples. I first provide a brief over-view of the most relevant aspects of Rawls's position, Justice as Fairness. I then explain why family-based immigration benefits are an important topic and one that everyone interested in immigration and justice must consider. I then show how same-sex couples are currently systematically excluded from the benefits that flow from family-based immigration rights. (...) Next I argue that people in the constitutional and legislative stages of Rawls's original position would act to protect family-based immigration rights for themselves and show how these rights are rights of the current citizens of a state to bring in certain outsiders and not rights of outsiders seeking to enter. Importantly, this argument takes place entirely within the bounds of Rawls's domestic theory of justice and does not make reference to his more controversial views found in his account of international justice. I then show that there is no acceptable reason to restrict these rights to opposite-sex couples and good reason to extend them to same-sex couples. Finally I consider two objections to my account and show why they do not threaten my conclusion. (shrink)
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