Book Overview and Status

Chapter 1: Human Ethics and Happiness (Complete!)

1. Ethics and Life (Complete!)

2. Eudaimonistic Ethics (Complete!)

Chapter 2: Emotions (In Progress)

1. The Nature and Development of Emotions (In Progress)

2. Love

3. Happiness as Emotion?

4. The Passionate Life

Chapter 3: Relationships

1. Kinds of Love

2. Friendship

3. Romantic Relationships

4. Friendship v. Romantic Love?

Chapter 4: Erotic Attraction and Fantasy (In Progress)

1. Erotic Attraction (In Progress)

2. Fantasy

3. Masturbation

Chapter 5: Erotic Identities

1. Issues

2. Distinction: Eroticism v. Sexuality

3. The Categorization of Desire: Homosexual v. Heterosexual

Chapter 6: Sex

1. The Nature of Sex

2. Sexual Pleasure

Chapter 7: Sexual Perfection

1. Masculinity and Femininity

2. Union

3. Sex as a Fundamentally Ethical Act

Chapter 8: Applications

1. Erotic Decadence

2. Abortion (In Progress)

3. Birth Control

4. Children and Eroticism

5. Gay Marriage

6. Prostitution

7. Strip Clubs

8. Abstinence

Query Letter #2

Dear [Agent],

Ethics, Sex, Happiness. What do these concepts have to do with each other? Everything. The purpose of my new book, Sexual Perfection: Foundations of a New Sexual Ethic, is to show how these concepts are intimately related: to show why it is not only morally permissible, but morally necessary, to integrate sex into one’s pursuit of happiness. This is because humans are naturally sexual beings and to deny fundamental aspects of our nature is to preclude oneself from the possibility of happiness.

Sex and ethics are not inimical: indeed, true happiness can only be found in their union. Sex can provide the impetus and passion necessary to fuel ethics and achieve happiness, but only if it is understood. The mindless hedonic, or the ascetic religious, approach to sex invites only shame and regret. However, if we understand what sex is and its proper role in life, then sex can become life-affirming. It is important to understand that humans, unlike most mammals, do not have only certain times of the year in which sex is possible. Sex for us is more than a biological drive for reproduction: one must choose to have sex. 

Sex, however, is not a simple act: it has necessary connections to intimate relationships. Whether or not one chooses to enter into a relationship with a lover, there is no denying that the intimacy of the act of sex leads one to feel a connection to his lover and that it is this intimate connection that forms the basis for an intimate relationship. Because of this, there can be no such thing as simply having sex with a person with nothing further: all sex entails emotional responses, whether they are acted upon or repressed.

If we want to be able to integrate sex into our quest for happiness, we must understand all of this and much more. This is the purpose of Sexual Perfection: to gain the requisite knowledge of sexuality and its role in life in order achieve happiness.

I invite you to request my proposal and see for yourself the full theory of Sexual Perfection.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Jason Stotts
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Query Letter #1

Dear Mr. Agent,

Everyone today seems to be searching for happiness, but few are able to find it. There are numerous books published on the subject, lectures addressed to full audiences, workshops and seminars designed to show one how to be happy; and a burgeoning sense that the happiness they seek is either illusory or unattainable. The problem is that these searchers have not taken the time to properly identify the end that they seek. By identifying happiness as a simple emotion and seeking to achieve it, they have set themselves up for misery. The fact is that happiness is a state of existence arising from the achievement of one’s values and working to achieve one’s moral perfection. Happiness is a core concept from Ethics.

Although many treatises have been written in the history of philosophy on the subject of happiness, none of these treatises discuss the most pivotal aspect of happiness: sexuality. For too long sex has been considered to be shameful, a simple thoughtless pleasure that corrupted both body and mind. Sex has been relegated to the role of an inescapable necessary evil: an incessant drive that we cannot control and which causes us much anguish in our lives.

Yet, without sex, life would be incomplete. We must learn how to integrate sex into our lives if we want to be happy. In order to do this, we must first come to understand both sex and happiness. This is the purpose of Sexual Perfection: to outline the path to happiness through sex.

If you think that you are the kind of agent who can handle a project with the potential to change the world, I invite your response. 

Sincerely,

Jason Stotts

Philosopher

Themes of Sexual Perfection

Overarching Theme
Sex is necessary for Happiness

Chapter 1: Human Ethics and Happiness
The Purpose of Ethics is Happiness and this requires Sex.

Chapter 2: Emotions
Emotions are reasonable and can be harnessed to improve our lives.

Chapter 3: Relationships
A good friend is necessary, but a good lover is better.

Chapter 4: Erotic Attraction and Fantasy
Attraction and Arousal are functions of the Mind.

Chapter 5: Erotic Identities
Homosexual and Heterosexual are categories of volitional action.

Chapter 6: Sex
Sex is not just for reproduction anymore.

Chapter 7: Sexual Perfection
Human completion is to be found in the Union.

Chapter 8: Erotic Decadence
Sex does not necessarily increase one’s Life.