It sometimes happens in college that the interesting conversations are not the ones happening in the classroom, especially in relation to discussions about sex. This book takes everything interesting that could result from a philosophical discussion of sex and puts it into one book. Furthermore, as Bruce and Stewart point out in the introduction, sex IS important. Too often the uptight professor who can debate Plato's conception of the good until he's red in the face hasn't even found himself sexually, for lack of a better phrase. Men also tend to bring a masculine, biased conception of sexual practice itself to discussions of sex (brought on by the man-dominated Western philosophical tradition). This book challenges these biased masculine conceptions of sex, as well as biased hetero conceptions of sex.I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in sex generally, and for anyone who has thought that sex is really something more than "love misspelled" as Harlan Ellison once put it.