DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! (Unless you really want a really tiny tome.) Kindle occasionally FREE!Some things can be figured out; Some things must be taught. Some things are just what they seem; Some things, just are not.One thing you can surely know, One thing you can't forget;Is the one thing you can-not do...Is that thing you haven't yet.And when you do that thing, that thingBecomes a thing that you have done.And you can do another thingUntil everything is done.?"I'm done."
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. 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.