Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality ...
Persons, acts, or states of mind may be sexually perverted, but persons are referred to as perverse in virtue of a disposition or inclination toward entertaining perverse desires. If perversion is defined as a psychological state, acts are perverse only in virtue of the perverse desires that moti...