Introduction: the sexual challenge -- Pt. 1: The puzzle of sex, a developing understanding -- The creation stories -- Women and sex in the Hebrew scriptures -- Jesus: a scandalous figure -- Men, women and sex: the early Christian tradition -- East and West: different Christian perspectives -- Reformation thinkers -- Old wine in new bottles: the basis for sexual ethics today -- Pt. 2: The puzzle of sex today -- Psychological perspectives -- The sexual revolution -- Contraception and its social effects -- Transactional sex -- Love and marriage -- The old gods return -- Sex and becoming fully human -- Infidelity, adultery and betrayal -- Homosexual relationships -- Bringing the threads together.
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