Sexual Experience

In McEnvoy Adrienne, Sex, Love, and Friendship, vol. 2. Rodopi (2011)
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The paper follows an ontological approach in analyzing sexual experience. Sexual experience is defined as: (i) an experience in action. Correspondingly, its individuals are of two different types: (a) sense-data and (b) gestures. (ii) It is a kind of knowledge—a typical synthetic a posteriori knowledge (a virgin cannot know what sexual experience could be). (iii) It is a kind of anti-realist knowledge—its objects are constructed in the process of knowing. (iv) Sexual action proceeds in judgments that are micro-decisions of how to proceed further. (v) The objects of sexual experience are seen in a specific perspective. This makes their meaning different from the meaning of physical objects.

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reprint Milkov, Nikolay (2011) "Sexual experience". In McEvoy, Adrianne, Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003, pp. : Rodopi (2011)

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Tractatus logico-philosophicus.Ludwig Wittgenstein (ed.) - 1960 - Frankfurt am Main: [Suhrkamp].
Plain sex.Alan Goldman - 1977 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (3):267-287.

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