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Sexual Desire (book)
''Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation'' (also published as ''Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic'') is a 1986 book about the philosophy of sex by Roger Scruton, who argues that sex is morally permissible only if it involves love and intimacy. ''Sexual Desire'', which has received both praise and criticism from reviewers, has been seen as one of the most important works in the philosophy of sex.〔〔
==Summary==
Scruton, influenced by the work of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,〔Scruton 1994. pp. 56-7.〕 attempts to develop a conservative sexual ethic.〔 Citing ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' (1807), he summarizes Hegel as arguing that, "The final end of every rational being is the building of the self—of a recognisable personal entity, which flourishes according to its own autonomous nature, in a world which it partly creates."〔Scruton 1994. pp. 298-9.〕 This process involves recognizing the other as an end in himself or herself.〔Scruton 1994. p. 301.〕
Discussing sexual perversion, Scruton argues that its "major structural feature" is the "complete or partial failure to recognise, in and through desire, the personal existence of the other", which in turn is "an affront, both to him and oneself." Scruton calls perversion, "narcissistic, often solipsistic".〔Scruton 1994. p. 289.〕 In his chapter on perversion, Scruton considers masturbation, bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia, sado-masochism, homosexuality, incest, and fetishism. Scruton argues that there are two forms of masturbation, and only one is perverted.〔Scruton 1994. pp. 284-321.〕 Though aware of arguments that homosexuality should not be considered a perversion, Scruton writes that homosexuality is "''significantly'' different from heterosexuality, in a way that explains, even if it does not justify, the traditional judgement of homosexuality as a perversion." Heterosexuality involves dealing with the different and complementary nature of the opposite sex, whereas homosexuality does not: "Desire directed towards the other gender elicits not its simulacrum but its complement." Scruton writes that, "In the heterosexual act, it might be said, I move out ''from'' my body ''towards'' the other, whose flesh is unknown to me; while in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own." Scruton dismisses classical scholar Kenneth Dover's ''Greek Homosexuality'' (1978) as "trivialising" and faults Michael Levin's arguments for the abnormality of homosexuality, calling them absurd.〔Scruton 1994. pp. 305-310, 410.〕 In Scruton's view, normal sexuality involves not only giving recognition to the other's person in and through desire for him or her, but also according them accountability and care in the process.〔Dollimore 1991. pp. 260-262.〕 Scruton argues that sex is morally permissible only if it involves love and intimacy.〔Belliotti 1997. p. 318.〕
Thinkers of whom Scruton is critical include the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who he believes created an impersonal metaphysics in which "the 'self' and all its mysteries" vanish, Sigmund Freud and later psychoanalysts such as Melanie Klein and Wilhelm Reich,〔Scruton 1994. pp. 195-6.〕 as well as Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown and Michel Foucault.〔Scruton 1994. pp. 118, 205, 350, 362.〕 Though unconvinced by Sir Karl Popper's criticism of Freud, Scruton faults Freud for developing theories that depend upon metaphor and as such are not genuinely scientific. Scruton finds Freud's theory of the libido incoherent and believes it rests on unacceptable use of metaphor. Scruton is critical of sociobiological explanations of human behaviour.〔Scruton 1994. p. 201-3, 184-5.〕
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