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Sex and Punishment : Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

ISBN: 9781619021556 | 1619021552
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Counterpoint
Pub. Date: 4/9/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given point in time, some forms of sex were condoned while others were punished mercilessly. Jump forward or backward a century or two (and often far less than that), and the harmless fun of one time period becomes the gravest crime in another. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the ... MORE
Introductionp. 1
Channeling the Urge: The First Sex Lawsp. 10
Honor Among (Mostly) Men: Cases From Ancient Greecep. 56
Imperial Bedrooms: Sex and the State in Ancient Romep. 86
The Middle Ages: A Crowd Condemnedp. 123
Groping Toward Modernity: The Early Modern Period, 1500-1700p. 174
The New World of Sexual Opportunityp. 251
The Eighteenth Century: Re... MOREp. 273
The Nineteenth Century: Human Nature on Trialp. 328
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Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer and journalist. He has a degree in print journalism from University of Southern California and has published in the Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Weekly, and for the Associated Press. He was an editor of the West Coast’s premier daily legal publication, The Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco.


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