Book Update

by Jason

This is an update on the progress of my book Sexual Perfection, since I haven't officially mentioned it in over a year.

The book is coming along well and I expect to begin resubmitting it to publishers again within a week or two. My proposal is done (and in roughly 7th draft) and we'll be submitting it with Chapter 2 (which I'm trying to get into a good 2nd draft now).

I say "we'll" be submitting it because I've acquired an agent for the book, Mr. James Fitzgerald of the James Fitzgerald Agency in New York. James is one of the best selling agents in the country and I'm confident that he'll be able to help me get Sexual Perfection into a good publisher.

I've included a condensed outline below and I've also indicated which sections are done or in progress.

If you are in the publishing field and are interested in the book, write me at erosophia.blogspot (@) gmail.com or contact my agent via his website linked above. Anyone else, leave a comment! ;)

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Sexual Perfection:

Foundations of a New Sexual Ethic

Chapter 1: Sexual Ethics (Complete Draft)

Section 1: The Necessity of Sexual Ethics

a. The Broad View: Atrocity and Sexual Crimes

b. The Narrow View: Sex as Life Affirming

Section 2: The Foundations of Ethics

a. Death as the Fundamental Impetus of Ethics

b. The Right of Self-Interested Action

Section 3: Flourishing as the Goal of Ethics

a. Virtue as a Means to Happiness

b. Happiness: a Way of Living, not Simply a Feeling

Chapter 2: Emotions (Complete Draft)

Section 1: The Nature of Emotions

a. Defining Emotions

b. The Emotional Process

c. Sense of Life

Section 2: Philosophy and Emotions

a. Conscious Philosophy and Emotional Integration

b. The Integrated Passionate Life

Chapter 3: Relationships and Love

Section 1: Different Kinds of Relationships

a. Familial Love

b. Kinds of Friendship

c. Romantic Love

Section 2: Love and Romantic Relationships

a. Relationships and Love

b. The Bases of Intimate Relationships

c. Sexual Attraction and Long-term Love

d. The Purpose of Marriage

Chapter 4: Sexual Attraction and Fantasy

Section 1: Sexual Attraction

a. Paradigms of Attraction

b. The Delusion of Physical Attraction

c. Robust Attraction

d. Philosophy and Sexual Attraction (In Progress)

Section 2: Fantasy

a. The Purpose of Fantasy

b. Different Kinds of Fantasy

c. Moral Considerations

Section 3: Masturbation

a. Sexual Development and Fulfillment

b. Sexual Self-Sufficiency

Chapter 5: Sexual Identities

Section 1: Possible Identities

a. Heterosexuality (In Progress)

b. Bisexuality (In Progress)

c. Homosexuality (In Progress)

d. Asexuality?

Section 2: Masculinity and Femininity

a. Origin and Nature of Masculinity and Femininity (In Progress)

b. Redefining Masculinity and Femininity (In Progress)

c. The Actualization of Masculinity and Femininity (In Progress)

Section 3: The Categorization of Desire

a. Orientation: Defined by Action or Desire?

b. Fluid Orientations

c. Natural Bisexuality

Chapter 6: Sexual Perfection

Section 1: Sex

a. The Nature of Sex

b. Sexual Pleasure

Section 2: Union

a. Stages of Union

b. The Nature of Union

Section 3: Human Completion through Sex

a. Impetus for Perfection

b. Sex as the Missing Piece of Complete Happiness

Chapter 7: Applications

Section 1: Erotic Decadence

a. Perversion

b. Fetishism

Section 2: Problems

a. Abortion (In Progress)

b. Birth Control

c. Children and Eroticism

d. Gay Marriage

e. Prostitution

f. Pornography