A wild constraint : the case for chastity / Jenny Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jenny, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chastity.

Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sex is no longer edgy; chastity is the real subversive option. A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity denounces the ideological destruction of personal virtue, and remakes the link, unfashionable since the 1960s, between sex and society. Largely considered an exclusively religious option, chastity is now being reclaimed as a radical new 'lifestyle choice'. What after all is liberating about behaviour that results in massive hidden pain and exploitation? But Jenny Taylor goes further and argues that in the context of promiscuity, sex trafficking and social chaos, chastity can herald a differe

Contents:

'Ready for sex'

Made in the image of dog : Freud and his disciples

Sex and the destruction of childhood

Virtue and the vamp : women as culture carriers

The church's turn against chastity

Alone again, naturally

Sexuality for society

Surviving chastity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87368-7

9786612873683

1-4411-2670-8

OCLC:

682540879