Pedophilia and adult-child sex : a philosophical analysis / Stephen Kershnar.

By:

Kershnar, Stephen

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 143 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781498504478
1498504477
1498504450
9781498504454

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pedophilia and adult-child sexDDC classification:

362.76 23

LOC classification:

HQ71

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Contents:

Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex -- Pedophilia and Mental Disorder -- The Wrongness of Adult-Child Sex Involving Willing Participants and Non-Forward-Looking Reasons -- How Consent Works -- Exploitation -- The Wrongness of Adult-Child Sex Involving Willing Participants and Forward-Looking Reasons -- Pedophilic Fantasies -- Criminalization.

Summary: "This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are aesthetic or moral. By analogy, many people find it disgusting to view images of obese people having sex, but it is hard to see what is morally undesirable about such sex: here the judgment is aesthetic. This book looks at the moral status of such adult-child sex. In particular, it explores whether those who engage in adult-child sex have a disease, act wrongly, or are vicious. In addition, it looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses"--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-138) and index.

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"This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are aesthetic or moral. By analogy, many people find it disgusting to view images of obese people having sex, but it is hard to see what is morally undesirable about such sex: here the judgment is aesthetic. This book looks at the moral status of such adult-child sex. In particular, it explores whether those who engage in adult-child sex have a disease, act wrongly, or are vicious. In addition, it looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses"--Publisher's description.

English.

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