Sex and Reason Paperback by Richard A. Posner

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1994-01-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 468 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674802803
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

About the Author

Richard A. Posner retired as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. He was previously a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.