Buddhist Perspective on Diseased Desire

                             by Wadinagala Pannaloka

 This work embarks to examine the Theravada Buddhist literature on deviant sexual behavior, a topic today highly discussed by scholars from different fields like Sociology, Medical Science, Religion and gender studies. Though the work gives emphasis to examine the cases, views and data related a selected number of so called unconventional (=seen as expression of diseased desire) sexual practices, the writer widens the scope of the research by an attempt to see the data in the primary sources through the light of other fields, such as medical science and sociology. The research shows that established views on certain deviant sexual practices can be challenged from the Buddhist perspective. Finally, the work asserts the unacceptability of stigmatization upon the deviants.

 Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing

 Date: 23/11/2013