The Rich also Cry

Ana De Miguel
2016 Law, Ethics and Philosophy  
Philippe Van Parijs (2015) reports a hostile reaction to some remarks he made suggesting that men's stronger sexual drive disadvantages them compared to women, in part because it causes them to visit brothels, thereby incurring financial and reputational losses. This paper describes how satisfying sexual desire can be very cheap, or even free, and explains why the way a man's reputation is affected by a greedier libido is not always significant or negative. More importantly, the paper tries to
more » ... xplain why Van Parijs' remarks were received with so much disapproval by feminists.
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