A Moral Defense of Prostitution

Is prostitution immoral? In this book, Rob Lovering argues that it is not. Offering a careful and thorough critique of the many-twenty, to be exact-arguments for prostitution's immorality, Lovering leaves no claim unchallenged. Drawing on the relevant literature along with his own creative thinking, Lovering offers a clear and reasoned moral defense of the world's oldest profession. Lovering demonstrates convincingly, on both consequentialist and nonconsequentialist grounds, that there is nothing immoral about prostitution between consenting adults. The legal implications of this view are also brought to bear on the current discourse surrounding this controversial topic. 

List of contents

1. Preliminaries.- 2. Two Arguments for Prostitution.- 3. Consequentialist Arguments against Prostitution.- 4. Non-Consequentialist Arguments against Prostitution.- 5. Religious Arguments against Prostitution.

About the author

Rob Lovering is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, USA. He is the author of God and Evidence: Problems for Theistic Philosophers (2013) and A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Rob Lovering
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9783030758653
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3075865-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 22 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: X, 408 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works