"Christine Gudorf is unflinching in her construction of Christian sexual ethics around the fundamental and central goodness of sexual pleasure. She plumbs the humanizing experience of sexual pleasure in ways that show its essential ingredients of mutuality, justice, bodily self-control, and energy for community. Dr. Gudorf's skillful handling of empirical data, ethical method, and theological insight give us an enormously important, honest, and clear sexual ethics for our time. She knows well the incarnational revelation: that it continues to be God's good pleasure to be revealed in our human flesh." -James B. Nelson, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

"We need to hear from Gudorf, who knows after twenty-five years as a spouse and coparent that sex is not necessarily or primarily directed to pro- creation. Her most important contribution is to draw on sexual experience. She not only shows why shared sexual pleasure is a key to mutual love, she makes pleasure an indispensable criterion of moral sex." -Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

"In Western life, the sexual revolution keeps spreading and deepening. Theologians such as Beverly Harrison, James Nelson, and Carter Heyward have been constructing a corresponding new Christian ethic and spirituality. But no theologian as much as Christine Gudorf in BODY, SEX, AND PLEASURE has undertaken this while attending so widely and so critically to actual sexual experiences as reported by sciences and social sciences and individual Christians. None has taken on so many emerging questions nor pursued answers with such relentless loyalty to whatever experience wields-whether good or evil." -Giles Millhaven, Brown University