Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The Westbourne Press
ISBN-10
1908906103
ISBN-13
9781908906106
eBay Product ID (ePID)
140027040
Product Key Features
Author
Eric Berkowitz
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History: Specific Subjects
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Author Biography
Eric Berkowitz is a lawyer and journalist. He has published investigative pieces in the Los Angeles Times and maintains a public interest law practice, where he represents victims of domestic violence as well as homosexuals seeking political asylum in the United States.