Sex and Punishment - Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire (Paperback)

Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for `gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged - and justice, as Berkowitz shows - rarely had anything to do with it.

General

Imprint:	The Westbourne Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2013
Authors:	Eric Berkowitz
Dimensions:	200 x 130 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	476
ISBN-13:	978-1-908906-10-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Sexual relations Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-908906-10-3
Barcode:	9781908906106

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