Review - Philosophizing About Sex by Laurie J. Shrage and Robert Scott Stewart Broadview Press, 2015 Review by Shaun Miller Aug 25th 2015 (Volume 19, Issue 35) To see the review online, please click here: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7457&cn=394 When it comes to introductory books about the philosophy of sex, there is not much of a selection. There are a few that make the cut such as Alan Soble's Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction in its second edition and Raja Halwani's Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction. And then there are anthologies such as the thickThe Philosophy of Sex in its sixth edition which was edited by Alan Soble, Raja Halwani, and Nicholas Power, as well as Philosophy and Sex in its fourth edition which was edited by Robert B. Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger and Talk About Sex edited by Robert Scott Stewart. The anthologies can be a bit much for students who are introduced to philosophy, let alone the philosophy of sex, which leaves Halwani's or Soble's text as the next available options. The difference between those two and this new book by Shrage and Stewart is that the latter focuses primarily on sex whereas the former looks at marriage as well as love. The book is divided into twelve chapters with each chapter focusing on a particular topic. Some of the topics are what you would expect in a philosophy book about sex (e.g. objectification, perversion, and defining sex), but Shrage and Stewart fill in many lacunae that one does not see very often in an introduction to the philosophy of sex, such as sexual privacy, cyber-rape, teledildonics, street harassment, and medical studies of science. The book not only uses academic journal articles to discuss the topics, but there are many references to articles that one can easily access and is for a general audience such as HuffPost, Alternet, NYtimes, and NPR. A nice benefit to this book is that the authors provide historical context to show how an issue became important. For example, with new technology coming out, sexting has become an issue, especially among teenagers. But the laws reflect a time when no one was sending naked pictures through a phone. Sending nude photos of people who are minors is considered a criminal offense and may have to register as a sex offender. And yet, when teenagers do it, it seems that the laws are too strict to enforce two teenagers to register as sex offenders, not only because one possess the photo of the sender, but because the sender is also not of age and so the sender possess a naked photo of him/herself which, under the law, constitutes as child pornography. By giving adequate background, the authors nicely sum up the details which helps the readers explain what the issue is. The style of the book covers certain ideas and briefly presents what some of the positions are, although it would be nice if the arguments were explicated in more detail, which is one flaw of the book. I'm not sure if this is a pedagogical purpose so that the reader can decide what to make of the idea, but for a philosophy book, I would expect to have more rigorous justifications, logic, and arguments to explain the ideas. However, the authors nicely explain what is at stake and why the issue is important, but I mostly got a sense of once they explained the issue, I was left wanting. Perhaps it is my own personal style, but I wanted more. Instead, the authors present the issues, and mostly leave it to