Sexual Desire

<p>A dazzling treatise as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS <p/><br>He is an eloquent and practised writer - The Independent (UK) <p/>When John desires Mary or Mary desires John what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence passion love and arousal desire perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises and ranging over human life art and institutions he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love.</p>