2nd Global Conference: Good Sex, Bad Sex – Sex Law, Crime and Ethics

Monday 3rd May 2010 – Wednesday 5th May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline: 27th November 2009

After the success of the inaugural conference for this project, we are pleased to announce the Second Annual Conference, to be held in Prague in May 2010. The conference is a keystone of the ’Good Sex, Bad Sex’ interdisciplinary.net project that seeks to explore the nature, character and issues around the prohibition, regulation or permission of different and distinct forms of sexuality and debates around their legal, ethical and cultural status in contemporary societies.

The sorts of questions the project wishes to address are: How do we regulate and seek to deter sex crime? How do we support victims, prosecute perpetrators and encourage lawful and discourage unlawful sexual conduct? Should our startegies for perpetrators be rehabilitation, punishment or deterrence and what are the implications of elements of each? What about when the law prosecutes ‘victimless crimes’ or seems unjust in relation to particular sexualities? Or fails to adequately protect the innocent or regulate the guilty? How does law relate to ethics and our understanding about what good and bad sex are? What ethical grounds do we have for distinguishing good sex and bad sex?

The project seeks to explore the terrain around sex law, sexual ethics and sex crime with a critical edge that moves beyond simple disciplinary attentions to policy, laws, social conventions or values to recognise the complexities and contested questions around the way states and social institutions regulate sexual conduct in contemporary societies and on what basis of principles. The project will explore the role of law and ethics in guiding prohibitions, permissions and regulations of different sexual conduct and sexualities. It will explore the way in which law and other forms of regulation have been used to police and repress desire and pleasure, and the ways in which such prohibitions and regulations have been changed, subverted, challenged or transgressed. This project seeks to generate inter-disciplinary work that has a definite and critical engagement with both sex law and sexual values and conventions in contemporary societies, and collectively represents intellectual work for the betterment of sexual ethics in sexual conduct in society and more informed and just regulation of different sexualities.

The project welcomes papers, panels and presentations from all disciplines, professions and vocations who have an interest in sex law and sex crime and the development of a more ethical sexuality and ethical regulation of sexuality. It welcomes critical engagements that challenge convention and make us think anew about issues of sex and society within a framework of ethical beneficence and just legality.

This year papers are particularly (but by no means exclusively) sought on two oft neglected themes … Read More at the Conference’s Webiste

Joint Organising Chairs:

Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Edge Hill University, Lancashire
United Kingdom

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom

The conference is part of the ‘Transformations’ research Hub at ID.Net. We aim to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume, or for the Global Journal of Sensuality, Sexuality and the Erotic, published by the Inter-Disciplinary Press.

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