Alan Hunt on Sexuality and Morality

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Alan Hunt on Sexuality and Morality.
Alan Hunt is a professor of Sociology and Law, who had endeavored to develop en
evolution of morality considering the history of United States and United Kingdom. While
developing the evolution of morality he considered or looked at the concept from the perspective
of the self and the perspective of others. He stated that the evolution of morality must include the
perspectives of governance of others and governance of self, and there upon must draw a
difference between the two types of governance and their role in the evolution. The book or the
work is developed upon a comparison between the two factors of governance. The endeavor of
Hunt was to develop an understanding of historical sociology (Hunt, 2012). The author had
included a number of topics and movements into the research and has tried to provide a brief
explanation on the rationale of each of the movements. For example, he had included the
Religious Rights in Modern America, Society for the Reformation Manners, the Vice Society,
the anti- obscenity and the pornography, and the proto feminists and modern feminist
movements.
In his work, Hunt has projected certain arguments, and had started his paper upon the
argument that moral regulation is a discrete idea, and while the political and the economic
regulation can go alongside, the moral regulation are very distinct from these and cannot go with
these other factors. The chapter three which is essentially considered here is completely based on
the moral regulations. He had looked at the moral regulation form various aspects and angles
(Hunt, 1997). Therefore, in order to understand his concept of moral regulation, it is important to
understand the definition of moral regulation.