Problem
Philosophy of Love and Sex
A. Explain the evolutionary role of homosexuality according to Ruse.
B. What is the connection between Ruse's argument above and Aristophanes'(Plato's) views regarding male homosexuals?
C. What is the difference between something being perverted and something being immoral, according to Ruse? Provide an explanatory example of your own.
D. Lay out Nagel's criticism of De Sade.
E. What is sexual perversion according to Nagel, and how does he connect this notion of his with the two models that he presents?
F. Choose either Ruse's or Nagel's main argument and explain how you agree or disagree with it.