Archaic and ludicrous though this may seem today, they needed terms for so-called "deviants [who] pursued sexual pleasure without concern for procreation".
But oh, is it ever worth remembering in light of what is right now being dubbed, with various degrees of pleasure and concern, confusion and delight, "the rise of the woman," "the new conservative feminism," "the end of men," and on and on, all sorts of amazing, disorienting pro-female bellwethers and signs, indicators and shifts.
In layman's terms, people who are concerned about their personal pleasure are concerned with their overall sexual health.
Insofar as Mill's higher pleasures doctrine concerns objective pleasures, it appears anti-hedonistic for two reasons.
16 The questionnaire was individually administered, and the elderly individuals were asked to have in mind their own values, hopes, pleasures, and concerns, based on the previous two weeks.
What might seem worse, the additional proofs concern pleasure, and thereby introduce seemingly at the eleventh hour a heap of new considerations for the ethics of the Republic.
The participants in the young women's focus group expressed an orientation toward pleasure rather than concern for their future health.
They are very quick, and though they concern "pleasures," Socrates never says exactly what pleasure is.
This whittling leaves us with the three arguments that Socrates labels his "proofs" (580c9, cf. 583b), the first discussing psychological health and disease at length and the second and third concerning pleasure.
Our desire for pleasure NOW overrides our concern for our long-term health.
