Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Investigates philosophical issues relating to human sexual behaviors and identities. Topics include attempts to distinguish sexual from nonsexual activities; the construction and medicalization of sex and sexuality; and historical and contemporary ethical evaluations of various sexual activities and identities (homosexuality, heterosexuality, masturbation, sado- masochism, various fetishisms, polyamory, and other nonmonogamies).