Eric Berkowitz

Sex and Punishment (eBook, ePUB)

Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 'I don’t think I’ve ever read such an entertaining historical work. Whether you want to fuel your indignation, or simply furnish yourself with enough jaw-dropping data to galvanise a hundred party conversations, you really must shell out for this book. It’s worth every penny.’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'A wonderful exposure of the illogicality of so much legislation that attempts to regulate sexual activity ... from the age of consent to adultery and sex on college campuses.’ Mary Beard 'A fascinating and gruesomely compelling study of human sexuality’ Mail on Sunday 'Eric Berkowitz's cross-examination of human sexuality is both exciting and impressively relentless.’ Sunday Times 'Stimulating ... Berkowitz has achieved a perfect balance between case study and analysis, and between narrative and reflection. ... This is a wonderfully well-written, well-organised and accomplished book.' Sarah Wheeler, Literary Review 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Westbourne Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908906014
• Artikelnr.: 38370283

Autorenporträt

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.