TITLE

The economics of sex

AUTHOR(S)

Sanoff, A.P.

PUB. DATE

May 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;5/4/92, Vol. 112 Issue 17, p61

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents a conversation with Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard A. Posner, who says people think about sexual mores much as they do about financial risks and benefits. What economic theory tells us about sexual behavior; How economic theory accounts for the shifts that have occurred in sexual morality over the centuries; Posner's concept of opportunistic homosexuality stated in his book `Sex and Reason'; How AIDS will affect sexual behavior.

ACCESSION #

9205042063

 

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