TY - BOOK AU - Sullivan,Clayton TI - Rescuing sex from the Christians SN - 0826417922 (pbk.) AV - BT708 .S87 2006 U1 - 241/.66 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Continuum KW - Sex KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Sexual ethics KW - Christian ethics KW - Consequentialism (Ethics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The first mistake : misunderstanding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden -- Adam and Eve and the euhemerous fallacy -- Augustine of Hippo -- Billy Graham and the Adam and Eve story -- Roman Catholicism and the Adam and Eve story : a marinade of sin and shame -- The second mistake : the divided self concept -- The divided self concept -- Socrates and the divided self -- Saint Paul and the divided self -- Augustine and the divided self -- By way of recapitulation -- Masturbation and the harm principle -- Homosexuality and the harm principle -- Word definitions and the Sodom story -- Homosexuality : a puzzle -- The Bible and cultural relativism -- An appeal to Jerry Falwell -- An appeal to homosexuals -- Two suggestions -- Fornication, adultery, and the harm principle -- A definition of terms -- The sinfulness of fornication -- Adultery and the harm principle -- Prostitution and the harm principle -- Some concluding remarks UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2005031775.html ER -