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Eric Berkowitz

Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

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.
577 páginas impressas
Detentor dos direitos autorais
Bookwire
Publicação original
2013
Ano da publicação
2013
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  • Lisa Fedotovafez uma citaçãohá 9 anos
    several European cultures during the Middle Ages, mothers collected their daughters’ first menstrual flows, saving them and later mixing them into aphrodisiacs to spark desire in their sons-in-law
  • Lisa Fedotovafez uma citaçãohá 9 anos
    THE BELIEF THAT homosexuality could provoke famine, pestilence, and earthquakes remained strong wherever people used the Bible for moral guidance.
  • Lisa Fedotovafez uma citaçãohá 9 anos
    In the fifteenth century, the city of Dijon and its surrounding area had a population of less than ten thousand, yet the city supported a public bordello and eighteen private establishments. In Strasbourg, there were fifty-seven brothels in six streets alone.

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