Dr. Feser on Natural Law and Sexual Ethics

Many people today talk about sex much, but they do not THINK about sex much.... I mean, c'mon.... who really sat on his couch, smoked his pipe, and started to philosophize about the metaphysics and teleology of sex, and started to ask, "What is Sex? What is it for?"

Dr. Edward Feser just does that.

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