Sex and Reason.
Posner, Richard A. Sex and Reason. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. vii, 458pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stampe spine, fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows slight shelfwear to edges. Internally clean. $20. * A thorough interdisciplinary study evaluating human sexuality through the analytical lens of law and economics. Posner, an influential federal appellate judge and legal theorist, deploys a rational-choice market model to investigate how societies regulate sexual behavior across different historical eras and cultures. This work delivers a rigorous critique of traditional moral and biological explanations for sexual regulations, examining instead the social costs and benefits of specific legal interventions. Individual chapters comprehensively evaluate the economic and legal policy frameworks surrounding marital contracts, abortion, contraception, homosexuality, prostitution, and the constitutional boundaries of individual privacy and moral legislation in the United States.
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