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<br> Sex Appeal is the beginning of a conversation that has been a long time coming. How can people make safe, ethical choices about sex without sacrificing the fun of it? How can these choices make our lives, and the world, a better place? Paul Abramson explores these questions and more with six key concepts that will help readers to better understand how to prevent sexual harm while safely enjoying all of the benefits sex has to offer. Sex Appeal is provocative and refreshing in its embrace of a kind of sexual freedom that is at once both joyful and thoughtful. --Dr. Ruth Westheimer<br> I was quite curous when Sex Appeal: Six Ethical Principles for the Twenty-First Century, a slender volume from Oxford University Press by Paul R. Abramson, a psychology professor at U.C.L.A., crossed my desk. My initial reaction was, Huh, I guess I haven't seen an intellectual (secular) rulebook for sexual conduct (not a how-to bedroom guide) in a while, if I've ever seen one. And I thought, What a gr

Sex Appeal is the beginning of a conversation that has been a long time coming. How can people make safe, ethical choices about sex without sacrificing the fun of it? How can these choices make our lives, and the world, a better place? Paul Abramson explores these questions and more with six key concepts that will help readers to better understand how to prevent sexual harm while safely enjoying all of the benefits sex has to offer. Sex Appeal is provocative and refreshing in its embrace of a kind of sexual freedom that is at once both joyful and thoughtful. --Dr. Ruth Westheimer I was quite curous when Sex Appeal: Six Ethical Principles for the Twenty-First Century, a slender volume from Oxford University Press by Paul R. Abramson, a psychology professor at U.C.L.A., crossed my desk. My initial reaction was, Huh, I guess I haven't seen an intellectual (secular) rulebook for sexual conduct (not a how-to bedroom guide) in a while, if I've ever seen one. And I thought, What a great idea. Sex is confusing and our options for edification are both abundant and slight...I do wish that more literature on the subject resembled Abramson's book. It tips the scales...in the right direction. --Reviewed by Macy Halford in The New Yorker: The Book Bench

<br> Sex Appeal is the beginning of a conversation that has been a long time coming. How can people make safe, ethical choices about sex without sacrificing the fun of it? How can these choices make our lives, and the world, a better place? Paul Abramson explores these questions and more with six key concepts that will help readers to better understand how to prevent sexual harm while safely enjoying all of the benefits sex has to offer. Sex Appeal is provocative and refreshing in its embrace of a kind of sexual freedom that is at once both joyful and thoughtful. --Dr. Ruth Westheimer<p><br> I was quite curous when Sex Appeal: Six Ethical Principles for the Twenty-First Century, a slender volume from Oxford University Press by Paul R. Abramson, a psychology professor at U.C.L.A., crossed my desk. My initial reaction was, Huh, I guess I haven't seen an intellectual (secular) rulebook for sexual conduct (not a how-to bedroom guide) in a while, if I've ever seen one. And I thought, What a

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Paul R. Abramson is a professor of psychology at UCLA and one of the worlds leading authorities on sex. He is a former editor of the Journal of Sex Research, a technical advisor to the World Health Organizations global program on AIDS, and the author of many books.

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