Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

by Eric Berkowitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582437963
• ISBN13: 9781582437965
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"