Chapter Twenty-Seven: SPINOZA AND HUMAN SEXUALITY.

Chapter 27 of the book "Sex, Love and Friendship" is presented. In it the authors examine the philosophy of the 17th-century thinker Baruch Spinoza on issues of human sexuality, asserting that the successful innovations of Spinoza over and against Cartesian philosophy directly apply to the philosophy of sexuality. Additional topics include Spinoza's categorization of pleasure, pain and desire; lust as a subcategory of love, and Spinoza's separation of descriptive and normative methods.