Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

by Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown

Book Overview

In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245814
• ISBN13: 9780812245813
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"