Sex and Punishment
The Westbourne Press (Verlag)
978-1-908906-00-7 (ISBN)
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The 'raging frenzy' of the sex drive has always defied control, yet thousands of years of civilization have tried to do so, 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 the harmless fun of one time period becomes the gravest crime in another. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. Writer and lawyer 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.
Eric Berkowitz is a lawyer and journalist. He has published investigative pieces in the Los Angeles Times and the LA Weekly, and was an editor of the West Coast s premier legal publication, the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Eric maintains a public interest law practice, where he represents victims of domestic violence as well as homosexuals seeking political asylum in the United States. He lives in San Francisco.
Contents: Introduction 7 One Channeling the Urge: The First Sex Laws 15 Two Honor among (Mostly) Men: Cases from Ancient Greece 52 Three Imperial Bedrooms: Sex and the State in Ancient Rome 77 Four The Middle Ages: A Crowd Condemned 107 Five Groping toward Modernity: The Early Modern Period, 1500 - 1700 149 Six The New World of Sexual Opportunity 195 Seven The Eighteenth Century: Revelation and Revolution 229 Eight The Nineteenth Century: Human Nature on Trial 275 Notes 326 Bibliography 342 Acknowledgements 358 Photo credits 360 Index 361
| Zusatzinfo | 13 b/w images |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-908906-00-6 / 1908906006 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-908906-00-7 / 9781908906007 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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