After Dinner Conversation - Sex & Sexuality Ethics

Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Fiction

By: Frances Howard-Snyder, Ty Lazar, Amber Kusmenko, Edward Daschle, Molly Olguín, Julie Sondra Decker, Kristina Ryan Tate, Jan McCleery, Thea Swanson, Kevin Ramirez

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs

Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of sex and sexuality. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.

• Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.
• For Your Safety: Zoe is visited by the government for having sexual relations without first filing an "Intimate Partnership Agreement."
• The Wrong Shampoo: A young adult is invited by her new, older, love interest on a weekend trip with his friends, but struggles to fit in.
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Reincarnation: A gay couple, and a trans couple, get together for drinks and try to figure out what it means to be a man/woman.
• My Husband and Me: A husband's wife agrees to allow him to get a lifelike sex doll leading to unexpected consequences.
• Everyone's Gay In Space: Douglas Junior goes to lunch with his successful, gay, astronaut clone.
• Your First Lesson: Margarite grapples with her 13-year-old daughter's decision to become sexually active.
• The Draft: Society forces all babies to born, but creates a lottery system requiring all men to care for the offspring.
• The Pill: Marlee realizes how much her life has foolishly revolved around men.
• Recapturing the Spark: A married couple go on separate dates while texting each other.

Reviews ★★★★★
“With Science fiction we can explore other galaxies and alien conflicts, but with philosophical fiction we can explore other minds and ethical conflicts. Let this book take you on a Phi-Fi adventure.”
— William Irwin, Ph.D. - Philosophy Professor, King's College

“After Dinner Conversation has taken up the initiative to write themed collections of short stories that fit focused ethics courses – say, a course on bioethics, AI ethics, Tech ethics etc. These collections can offer a spine for such courses or individual stories could be added to a course as illustrative material to stimulate discussion. The stories are lively and engaging and followed by a set of questions to start classroom discussion. Also, outside of educational contexts, the stories will work nicely to stimulate conversation in families, elder hostels, youth clubs, or book groups.”
— Luc Bovens, Ph.D. - Philosophy Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill