Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Danya Ruttenberg -- I-It: challenges: Sotah: Rabbinic pornography? / Sarra Lev -- Prostitution: not a job for a nice Jewish girl / Judith R. Baskin -- Divorcing Ba'al: the sex of ownership in Jewish marriage / Bonna Devora Haberman -- The sage and the other woman: a Rabbinic tragedy / Aryeh Cohen -- Intermarriage, gender, and nation in the Hebrew bible / Esther Fuchs -- Good sex: a Jewish feminist perspective / Melanie Malka Landau -- I-Thou: Relationships: The erotics of sexual segregation / Naomi Seidman -- Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through ideological and practical reinterpretation / Haviva Ner-David -- The goy of sex: a short historical tour of relations between Jews and non-Jews / Wendy Love Anderson -- A Jewish perspective on birth control and procreation / Elliot N. Dorff -- Not like a virgin: talking about nonmarital sex / Sara N. S. Meirowitz -- Reconsidering solitary sex from a Jewish perspective / Rebecca T. Alpert -- We-Thou: Visions: "Created by the hand of Heaven": sex, love, and the androgynos / Elliot Rose Kukla -- Toward a new Tznuit / Danya Ruttenberg -- On the religious significance of homosexuality; or, Queering God, Torah, and Israel / Jay Michaelson -- Heruta's ruse: what we mean when we talk about desire / Gail Labovitz -- Love the one you're with / Laura Levitt -- Eden for grown-ups: toward a new ethic of Earth, of sex, and of creation / Arthur O. Waskow.