Sex and Punishment :Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

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Sex and Punishment :Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781908906106
ISBN10 1908906103
Number Of Pages 368
Item Weight 330 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller Saqi Books
Format paperback
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‘Extraordinary … I don’t think I’ve ever read such an entertaining historical work’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
‘Fascinating and gruesomely compelling’ Mail on Sunday
‘A wonderfully well-written and accomplished book’ Sara Wheeler, Literary Review
‘A wonderful exposure of attempts to regulate sexual activity’ Mary Beard

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Author's Bio

Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer and journalist. Before devoting his practice to public interest and asylum law, he practiced intellectual property and civil litigation in Los Angeles for more than twenty years. Berkowitz has published widely throughout his career, including investigative pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and articles in the Washington Post and The Economist, among others. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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