Generosity: Between Love and Desire
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 13 (1) , 1-20
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01349.x
Abstract
“Safe sex” discourse attempts to protect women from dangers assumed inherent in erotic life, such as domination, submissiveness, and loss of freedom and self-control. However, Beauvoir's and Merleau-Ponty's revision of Sartre's ontology suggests that erotic life involves a kind of generosity that transforms existence; sex neither liberates personal existence nor poses a necessary threat to women's freedom. I also reconsider the conditions under which sex is assumed to involve a violation of being.Keywords
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