And this may sound like an odd segue into country music, but the hallmark of country is living the good ol' life of the singer, including their explicit pleasures or vices.
In my view, the best strategy to avoid "hedonic corruption" of happiness is to welcome wholeheartedly the pleasures that come our way but not to make the explicit pursuit of pleasure a dominating part of our life project.
Recent philosophers' explicit classification of pleasure as an attitude seems to begin with Nowell-Smith (1954), pp. 111-15, on which see the Bibliography annotation and Perry 1967, pp. 204-14.
Kant is explicit that feelings especially pleasure (or satisfaction) and pain (or displeasure), both actual and anticipated are essential to human moral motivation (Guyer 2008, ch. 5, and Guyer 2010).
He responds to Socrates' refutations by making a rather shrug-like suggestion that (contrary to his earlier explicit insistence) some pleasures are of course better than others (499b).
Since pornography is a visual medium and female ejaculation is the only visual evidence of female orgasm, this ban is tantamount to a wholesale censorship of female sexual pleasure in explicit media.
There her moral animus against utilitarianism and its relation to her dismissive treatment of pleasure are explicit.
One of the seven Prud'hons lives up to its explicit title, which is "Love Seduces Innocence, Pleasure Entraps, Remorse Follows".
Sensual pleasures can be generally obtained by 18 interviewees who displayed an explicit or an implicit orientation to personal pleasure.
Because sport, more generally, has no explicit purpose beyond the joy it brings its players and spectators, the Olympics feel like a testament to human pleasure: let us gather, and do these pure and ridiculous things for fun.
